The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 127
“I think we had better have stayed at the inn.”
Who acts: I, we · What happens: think, have, stay · To what, where: inn · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, we), 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 | _ | 3 think | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 think | nsubj |
| 3 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 think | ccomp |
| 6 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 stayed | amod |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 stayed | aux |
| 8 | stayed | stay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 had | xcomp |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 inn | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 inn | det |
| 11 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stayed | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | present | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have in a quote | past | we | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | stay in a quote | present · perfect | we not said here | the inn | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at inn=Location |
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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