The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 67

I was just thinking what good snowshoes it would make,” answered the fox in an absent voice, as if he was not thinking of what he was saying.

Who acts: I, good snowshoes, fox · What happens: think, make, answer, not think, say · To what, where: fox, absent voice · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, good snowshoes, fox), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 thinking	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thinking	aux
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 thinking	advmod
4	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 make	obj
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 snowshoes	amod
7	snowshoes	snowshoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 make	nsubj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 make	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 make	aux
10	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 thinking	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 thinking	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	13 answered	punct
13	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thinking	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fox	det
15	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 answered	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 voice	case
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 voice	det
18	absent	absent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 voice	amod
19	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 answered	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 thinking	punct
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 thinking	mark
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 thinking	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 thinking	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 thinking	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 thinking	advmod
26	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 answered	advcl
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 what	case
28	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 thinking	obl
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 saying	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 saying	aux
31	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 what	acl:relcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thinking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	roles by
1	think speech: other	past · progressive	I			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	make	would	good snowshoes			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset what=Product
3	answer speech: assert in a quote	past		the fox	a absent voice	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent fox=Eventuality
4	not think speech: other in a quote	past · progressive	fox			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	say speech: assert in a quote	past · progressive	fox			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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