The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 58
“Oh, I only thought that after your long journey you might like to wash.
Who acts: I, you, your · What happens: think, like, wash, journey · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, your), 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 | _ | 6 thought | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 6 thought | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 thought | nsubj |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 thought | advmod |
| 6 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 like | mark |
| 8 | after | after | ADP | _ | 11 journey | case |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 journey | nmod:poss |
| 10 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 journey | amod |
| 11 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 like | obl |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 like | nsubj |
| 13 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 like | aux |
| 14 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 thought | ccomp |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 wash | mark |
| 16 | wash | wash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 like | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | past | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | like in a quote | might | you | after your long journey | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wash not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | journey in a quote | your | nom journey «act transitive»: 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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