The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 66

I thought a second dose of that poison would be too much for you,' said the witch looking at him. '

Who acts: I, second dose, witch · What happens: think, be, say, look · To what, where: witch · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, second dose, witch), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 dose	det
4	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 dose	amod
5	dose	dose	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 much	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 poison	case
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 poison	det
8	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dose	nmod
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 much	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 much	cop
11	too	too	ADV	_	12 much	advmod
12	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thought	ccomp
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 you	case
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 much	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
16	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	parataxis
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 witch	det
19	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	obj
20	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 witch	acl
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 looking	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
24	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	I			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	would	a second dose of that poison		for you; much property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past		the witch		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent witch=Topic
4	look	gerund	the witch not said here		at Pinkel	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme

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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