The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 54

“I am feeling rather dull,” he remarked; “I think it would do me good to hunt a while.

Who acts: parrot, rabbit · What happens: feel, remark, think, do, hunt · To what, where: good, parrot · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parrot, rabbit), 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 feeling	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 feeling	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 feeling	aux
4	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 remarked	advcl
5	rather	rather	ADV	_	6 dull	advmod
6	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 feeling	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 feeling	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 feeling	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 remarked	nsubj
10	remarked	remark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 think	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 think	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 think	nsubj
14	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 remarked	ccomp
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 do	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 do	aux
17	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 think	ccomp
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 do	iobj
19	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 do	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 hunt	mark
21	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 good	advcl
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 while	det
23	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hunt	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 remarked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	feel in a quote	present · progressive	parrot				dull property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	remark speech: assert	past	parrot					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	think speech: other in a quote	present	parrot					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	do in a quote	would	rabbit	good	parrot			tree rules
5	hunt in a quote	to-infinitive	rabbit not said here			while		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=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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