The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 113
'I should be ashamed to say such things,' exclaimed Andras. '
Who acts: I · What happens: be, say, exclaim · To what, where: such things, Andras · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. 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 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 ashamed | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 ashamed | nsubj |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 ashamed | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 ashamed | cop |
| 5 | ashamed | ashamed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 say | mark |
| 7 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 ashamed | xcomp |
| 8 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 things | amod |
| 9 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 say | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 exclaimed | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 exclaimed | punct |
| 12 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ashamed | conj |
| 13 | Andras | Andras | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 exclaimed | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ashamed | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 ashamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | should | I | ashamed property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | I not said here | such things | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic | ||||
| 3 | exclaim speech: express | past | I not said here | Andras | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent andras=Topic |
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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