The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 4

In fact, I could hardly tear myself away; but I thought that I must really let you all know about it.'

Who acts: I · What happens: tear away, think, let, know · To what, where: myself, fact, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12. 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 fact	case
2	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tear	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 fact	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 tear	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 tear	aux
6	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	7 tear	advmod
7	tear	tear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 tear	obj
9	away	away	ADV	_	7 tear	advmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 thought	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 thought	cc
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 thought	nsubj
13	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 tear	advcl
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 let	mark
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 let	nsubj
16	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 let	aux
17	really	really	ADV	_	18 let	advmod
18	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 thought	ccomp
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 let	obj
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 know	advmod
21	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 let	advcl
22	about	about	ADP	_	23 it	case
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 know	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 tear	punct
25	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 tear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tear away	could	I	myself	fact	away, hardly property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	past	I				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	let	must	I	you			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
4	know	present	I not said here			about fact	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about it=Stimulus

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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