The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 39
“I am Iron Kneader, and should like to fight Shepherd Paul,” answered he.
Who acts: I · What happens: be, like, fight, answer · To what, where: Iron Kneader, Shepherd, Paul · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 Kneader | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 Kneader | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Kneader | cop |
| 4 | Iron | Iron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Kneader | compound |
| 5 | Kneader | Kneader | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 answered | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 like | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 like | cc |
| 8 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 like | aux |
| 9 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 Kneader | parataxis |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 fight | mark |
| 11 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 like | xcomp |
| 12 | Shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fight | obj |
| 13 | Paul | Paul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Shepherd | appos |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 like | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Kneader | punct |
| 16 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 answered | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | I | Iron Kneader | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | like in a quote | should | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | fight not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Shepherd | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shepherd=Co-Agent | |||||
| 4 | answer speech: assert | past | Paul | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality |
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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