The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 48
Now Tiidu thought it would not look well to cure the royal family by giving them the raw nuts; he felt that it might arouse suspicion.
Who acts: Tiidu, nose · What happens: think, not look, cure, give, feel, arouse · To what, where: royal family, raw nuts, summons, suspicion · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tiidu, nose), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 thought | advmod |
| 2 | Tiidu | Tiidu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 look | nsubj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 look | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 look | advmod |
| 7 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 thought | ccomp |
| 8 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 look | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 cure | mark |
| 10 | cure | cure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 look | xcomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 family | det |
| 12 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 family | amod |
| 13 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cure | obj |
| 14 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 15 giving | mark |
| 15 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 cure | advcl |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 giving | iobj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 nuts | det |
| 18 | raw | raw | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 nuts | amod |
| 19 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 giving | obj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 felt | punct |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 felt | nsubj |
| 22 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | conj |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 arouse | mark |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 arouse | nsubj |
| 25 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 arouse | aux |
| 26 | arouse | arouse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 felt | ccomp |
| 27 | suspicion | suspicion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 arouse | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Tiidu | now | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not look | would | nose | well property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cure | to-infinitive | nose not said here | the royal family | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer family=Source | ||||
| 4 | give | gerund | nose not said here | the raw nuts | summons = summon | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient nut=Theme | |||
| 5 | feel | past | Tiidu | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | arouse | might | nose | suspicion | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus suspicion=Experiencer |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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