The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 83
Of course I thought I could run the fastest; but I tripped, and it rolled on me.
Who acts: I, course · What happens: think, run, trip, roll · To what, where: fastest · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, course), 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 2 course | case |
| 2 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thought | obl |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 run | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 run | aux |
| 7 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 thought | ccomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fastest | det |
| 9 | fastest | fast | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 run | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 tripped | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 tripped | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 tripped | nsubj |
| 13 | tripped | trip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thought | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 rolled | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 rolled | cc |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 rolled | nsubj |
| 17 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 tripped | conj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 me | case |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 rolled | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | I | of course | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | run | could | I | the fastest | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | trip | past | I | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | roll | past | course | on me | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on i=Trajectory |
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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