The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 1

“Oh, certainly, godfather, certainly,” replied the wolf; but the bear said he should like to have a specimen of his howling, to make sure that he knew his business.

Who acts: godfather, bear · What happens: reply, say, like, have, make, know · To what, where: wolf, specimen, business · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (godfather, bear), 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	_	6 godfather	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	6 godfather	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	2 Oh	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
6	godfather	godfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 replied	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 certainly	punct
8	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	6 godfather	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 godfather	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 godfather	punct
11	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wolf	det
13	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 replied	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 said	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 bear	det
17	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	nsubj
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 replied	conj
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 like	nsubj
20	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 like	aux
21	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 said	ccomp
22	to	to	PART	_	23 have	mark
23	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 like	xcomp
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 specimen	det
25	specimen	specimen	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 have	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 howling	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 howling	nmod:poss
28	howling	howling	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 specimen	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 make	punct
30	to	to	PART	_	31 make	mark
31	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 have	conj
32	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 make	xcomp
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 knew	mark
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 knew	nsubj
35	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 sure	ccomp
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 business	nmod:poss
37	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 knew	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	godfather	the wolf		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wolf=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past	the bear			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	like	should	bear			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	have not said to happen	to-infinitive	bear not said here	a specimen of bear's howling		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent specimen=Patient
5	make	to-infinitive	bear not said here		sure property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
6	know	past	godfather	bear's business		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer business=Stimulus
7	howl		bear			nom howling «communication intransitive»: poss=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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