The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 12
“Oh, I should not feel comfortable if I was clean, your Majesty,” answered he, and went whistling after his geese.
Who acts: I · What happens: not feel, be, answer, go, whistle · To what, where: Paperarello · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 feel | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 feel | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 feel | nsubj |
| 5 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 feel | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 feel | advmod |
| 7 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 answered | ccomp |
| 8 | comfortable | comfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 feel | xcomp |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 clean | mark |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 clean | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 clean | cop |
| 12 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 feel | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Majesty | punct |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 15 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 clean | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 feel | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 feel | punct |
| 18 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 answered | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 went | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 went | cc |
| 22 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 answered | conj |
| 23 | whistling | whistle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 went | xcomp |
| 24 | after | after | ADP | _ | 26 geese | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 geese | nmod:poss |
| 26 | geese | goose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 whistling | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not feel in a quote | should | I | comfortable property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | I | clean property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | Paperarello | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | go | past | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 5 | whistle | gerund | after Paperarello's geese | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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