The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 8
“Do you suppose I stuck it into my own chin for fun?”
Who acts: you, other · What happens: suppose, stick · To what, where: quarrel, own chin · 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 (you, other), 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 | _ | 4 suppose | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 suppose | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 suppose | nsubj |
| 4 | suppose | suppose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 stuck | nsubj |
| 6 | stuck | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 suppose | ccomp |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 stuck | obj |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 chin | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 chin | nmod:poss |
| 10 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 chin | amod |
| 11 | chin | chin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stuck | obl |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 fun | case |
| 13 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stuck | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 suppose | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 suppose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suppose in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | stick in a quote | past | the other = other | quarrel | my own chin | for fun | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into chin=Destination |
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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