The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 39
“I dare say I should get on a great deal faster,” so he pulled out his hair and wished himself a bee.
Who acts: I, bee · What happens: say, get, pull out, wish · To what, where: great deal, hair, bee · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, bee), 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 | _ | 4 say | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 say | nsubj |
| 3 | dare | dare | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | aux |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 get | nsubj |
| 6 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 get | aux |
| 7 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 say | ccomp |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 deal | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 deal | det |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 deal | amod |
| 11 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 get | obl |
| 12 | faster | fast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 get | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 pulled | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 pulled | nsubj |
| 17 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | advcl |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 pulled | compound:prt |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 hair | nmod:poss |
| 20 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pulled | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 wished | cc |
| 22 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 pulled | conj |
| 23 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 22 wished | obj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 bee | det |
| 25 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 wished | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | dare | I | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | get in a quote | should | I | a great deal | fast property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on deal=Source | |||
| 3 | pull out | past | bee | bee's hair | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | wish | past | bee not said here | bee | tree rules |
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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