The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 3

'Thank you; I think I should prefer these.'

Who acts: I · What happens: thank, think, prefer · To what, where: you, these · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4. 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	_	2 Thank	punct
2	Thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 Thank	obj
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 think	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 think	nsubj
6	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Thank	conj
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 prefer	nsubj
8	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 prefer	aux
9	prefer	prefer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 think	ccomp
10	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	9 prefer	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Thank	punct
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 Thank	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	present			you	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
2	think speech: other	present	I			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	prefer	should	I	these		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus

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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