The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 14

Of course I should not have shot him!'

What happens: not shoot · To what, where: I

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	Of	of	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	7 shot	advmod
2	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Of	fixed
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 shot	nsubj:pass
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 shot	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 shot	advmod
6	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 shot	aux
7	shot	shoot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 shot	obj
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 shot	punct
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 shot	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not shoot	should · perfect · passive		I					vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination 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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