The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 36

“You felt so sure that it would do you good before,” said she, “that I can’t help thinking it would quite cure you now.”

Who acts: You, redbreast, wife · What happens: feel, do, say, not help, think, cure · To what, where: good, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, redbreast, wife), 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	_	3 felt	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 felt	nsubj
3	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 said	ccomp
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 sure	advmod
5	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 felt	xcomp
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 do	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 do	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 do	aux
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 sure	ccomp
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 do	iobj
11	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 do	obj
12	before	before	ADV	_	9 do	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 felt	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 felt	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 help	punct
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	23 help	punct
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 help	mark
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 help	nsubj
21	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 help	aux
22	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 help	advmod
23	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	ccomp
24	thinking	think	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 help	xcomp
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 cure	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 cure	aux
27	quite	quite	ADV	_	28 cure	advmod
28	cure	cure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 thinking	ccomp
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 cure	obj
30	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 cure	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 help	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	23 help	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	feel in a quote	past	You				sure property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	do in a quote	would	redbreast	good	you		before property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	wife					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not help in a quote	can	wife					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	think speech: other not said to happen, in a quote	gerund	wife not said here					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	cure in a quote	would	redbreast	you		now		vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer you=Source

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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