The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 26

I should have sold the dog just the same whatever you had told me.

Who acts: I · What happens: sell, tell · To what, where: dog, you, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 sold	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sold	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 sold	aux
4	sold	sell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dog	det
6	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sold	obj
7	just	just	ADV	_	9 same	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 same	det
9	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sold	advcl
10	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 told	obj
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 told	nsubj:pass
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 told	aux
13	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 same	parataxis
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 told	iobj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	should · perfect	I	the dog					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		you	me				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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