The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 75

“I shall be delighted,” answered the fox, “only I would rather that you began.”

Who acts: fox · What happens: be, answer, begin · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fox), 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	_	5 delighted	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 delighted	nsubj
3	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 delighted	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 delighted	cop
5	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 answered	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 delighted	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 delighted	punct
8	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fox	det
10	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 answered	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 began	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 began	punct
13	only	only	ADV	_	15 would	advmod
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 would	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 began	nsubj
16	rather	rather	ADV	_	19 began	advmod
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 began	mark
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 began	nsubj
19	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 answered	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 answered	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	shall	the fox = fox	delighted property	tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past	the fox		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	begin in a quote	past			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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