The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 94
“I have thought for some time that all was not quite straight here,” said he.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: think, not be, say · To what, where: time · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), 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 | _ | 4 thought | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 thought | aux |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 time | det |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thought | obl |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 said | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 said | ccomp |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 here | cop |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 here | advmod |
| 12 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 14 here | advmod |
| 13 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 14 here | advmod |
| 14 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 all | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 here | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 all | punct |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 time | acl:relcl |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 said | nsubj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | present · perfect | Prince | time | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not is in a quote | past | here, straight property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Prince | some time | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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