The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 100

“He is far too stupid ever to have done that!

Who acts: king · What happens: be, do · To what, where: that

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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	_	6 stupid	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 stupid	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 stupid	cop
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 stupid	advmod
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 stupid	advmod
6	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 stupid	advmod
8	to	to	PART	_	10 done	mark
9	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 done	aux
10	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 stupid	advcl
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 done	obj
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 stupid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	king				ever	far, stupid property	tree rules
2	do in a quote	to-infinitive · perfect	king not said here	that					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=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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