The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 82

I did not think that you would request that which is most precious to me.'

Who acts: I, you · What happens: not think, request, be · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you), 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	4 think	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 think	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 think	advmod
4	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 request	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 request	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 request	aux
8	request	request	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 think	ccomp
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 precious	mark
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 precious	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 precious	cop
12	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	13 precious	advmod
13	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 request	ccomp
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 me	case
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 precious	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 think	punct
17	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	not think speech: other	past · do-support	I			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	request	would	you			vn beg-58.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	is	present		me	precious property	tree rules

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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