The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 1

“I think I must be mad,” he said to himself, “and have dreamt all that folly”; and going back to the city he began his daily work.

Who acts: I, he, his · What happens: think, be, say, dreamt, go back, begin · To what, where: himself, folly, daily work · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, he, his), 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 think	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 think	nsubj
3	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 mad	nsubj
5	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 mad	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 mad	cop
7	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 think	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mad	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 think	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 think	parataxis
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 himself	case
13	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 said	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 dreamt	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 dreamt	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 dreamt	cc
17	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 dreamt	aux
18	dreamt	dreamt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 said	ccomp
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 folly	det:predet
20	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 folly	det
21	folly	folly	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 dreamt	obj
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	18 dreamt	punct
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 think	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 going	cc
25	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 ;	conj
26	back	back	ADV	_	25 going	advmod
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 city	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 city	det
29	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 going	obl
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 began	nsubj
31	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 city	acl:relcl
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 work	nmod:poss
33	daily	daily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 work	amod
34	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 began	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other in a quote	present	I				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	is in a quote	must	I			mad property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	he		himself = he		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient clause=Topic
4	dreamt in a quote	present · perfect		all folly			tree rules
5	go back	gerund	I not said here			to the city result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to city=Result
6	begin	past	he	his daily work			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality
7	work		his = he				nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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