The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 18

“Well,” said he, “if I were as foolish as you two, I would also fly into a rage, but I begin to see what time of day it is, and I’m going off this minute to see who it is that’s playing these tricks with us.”

Who acts: bullet, Thrice · What happens: say, be, fly, begin, see, go off · To what, where: rage, time, tricks · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bullet, Thrice), 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	_	5 said	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 foolish	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 foolish	punct
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 foolish	mark
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 foolish	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 foolish	cop
12	as	as	ADV	_	13 foolish	advmod
13	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	ccomp
14	as	as	ADP	_	15 you	case
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 foolish	obl
16	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 foolish	flat
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 fly	punct
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 fly	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 fly	aux
20	also	also	ADV	_	21 fly	advmod
21	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	conj
22	into	into	ADP	_	24 rage	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 rage	det
24	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fly	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 begin	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 begin	cc
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 begin	nsubj
28	begin	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
29	to	to	PART	_	30 see	mark
30	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 begin	xcomp
31	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	32 time	det
32	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 see	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 day	case
34	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 time	nmod
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 is	nsubj
36	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 time	acl:relcl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 ’m	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 ’m	cc
39	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 ’m	nsubj
40	’m	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 begin	conj
41	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	40 ’m	xcomp
42	off	off	ADP	_	41 going	compound:prt
43	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	44 minute	det
44	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 going	obl:unmarked
45	to	to	PART	_	46 see	mark
46	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 going	advcl
47	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	51 ’s	nsubj
48	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 who	nsubj
49	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 who	cop
50	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	47 who	conj
51	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 see	ccomp
52	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	51 ’s	xcomp
53	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	54 tricks	det
54	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 playing	obj
55	with	with	ADP	_	56 us	case
56	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	52 playing	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
58	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	bullet				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	bullet			as you; foolish property	tree rules
3	fly in a quote	would	bullet			into a rage result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into rage=Result
4	begin in a quote	present	bullet				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	see in a quote	to-infinitive	bullet not said here		time		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	be in a quote	present	Thrice	what time of day not said here			vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot time=Theme
7	be in a quote	present	bullet				tree rules
8	go off in a quote	gerund	bullet not said here		minute		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
9	see in a quote	to-infinitive	bullet not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
10	is a in a quote	present	Thrice				tree rules
11	play in a quote	gerund	bullet not said here	this tricks		with us	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent trick=Theme with we=Co-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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