The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 12

No. I think, after all, I like the coal-black one best, with the little white star on his forehead.

Who acts: I · What happens: think, like · To what, where: best

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14. 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	No.	no.	NOUN	Abbr=Yes Number=Sing	3 think	compound
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	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 think	punct
5	after	after	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 think	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 like	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 like	nsubj
9	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 think	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 one	det
11	coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 black	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 coal	punct
13	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 one	amod
14	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 best	nsubj
15	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 like	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 star	punct
17	with	with	ADP	_	21 star	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 star	det
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 star	amod
20	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 star	amod
21	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 like	conj
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 forehead	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 forehead	nmod:poss
24	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 star	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	I				after all		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	like	present	I	best					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot good=Theme

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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