The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 84

“I did, but all the babies in the village seemed to be named Motikatika,” answered the ogre; “you cannot think the number who came running to me.”

Who acts: ogre, babies, you, number · What happens: do, seem, name, answer, not think, come · To what, where: number, ogre · 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 (ogre, babies, you, number), 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 did	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 answered	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 seemed	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 seemed	cc
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 babies	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 babies	det
8	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 seemed	nsubj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 village	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 village	det
11	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 babies	nmod
12	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 did	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	15 named	mark
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 named	aux:pass
15	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 seemed	xcomp
16	Motikatika	Motikatika	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 named	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct
19	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 ogre	det
21	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 answered	obj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 think	punct
23	“	"	PUNCT	_	27 think	punct
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 think	nsubj
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 think	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 think	advmod
27	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 answered	ccomp
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 number	det
29	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 think	obj
30	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 came	nsubj
31	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 number	acl:relcl
32	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 came	advcl
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 me	case
34	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 running	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 think	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	27 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	do in a quote	past	the ogre = ogre			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	seem in a quote	past	all babies in the village			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	name in a quote	to-infinitive · passive	all babies in the village not said here			vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»
4	answer speech: assert	past	the ogre			tree rules
5	not think speech: other in a quote	can	you	the number		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot number=Theme
6	come in a quote	past	the number			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	run in a quote	gerund	the number not said here		the ogre = ogre	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to i=Result

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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