The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 111

'How foolish to bid me to put sand on the floors,' he thought, 'when there is nobody here by myself!

Who acts: man, nobody · What happens: bid, put, think, be · To what, where: me, sand, floors · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, nobody), 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	_	3 foolish	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 foolish	advmod
3	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 thought	ccomp
4	to	to	PART	_	5 bid	mark
5	bid	bid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 foolish	xcomp
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 bid	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 put	mark
8	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 bid	xcomp
9	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 put	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 floors	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 floors	det
12	floors	floor	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 put	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 foolish	punct
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 foolish	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 thought	nsubj
16	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 thought	punct
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	16 thought	punct
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 is	advmod
20	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	21 is	expl
21	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 thought	ccomp
22	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	21 is	nsubj
23	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 is	advmod
24	by	by	ADP	_	25 myself	case
25	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 is	obl
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bid	to-infinitive	man not said here	me			tree rules
2	put	to-infinitive	man not said here	sand	the floors		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent sand=Theme on floor=Destination
3	think speech: other	past	man				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	be	present	nobody		here; there	by myself	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by myself=Location

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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