The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 18

‘Mother, you have often declared that I was too stupid to catch a wolf by the tail.

Who acts: you, I · What happens: declare, be, catch · To what, where: wolf

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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	_	2 Mother	punct
2	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 declared	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Mother	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 declared	nsubj
5	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 declared	aux
6	often	often	ADV	_	7 declared	advmod
7	declared	declare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 stupid	mark
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 stupid	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 stupid	cop
11	too	too	ADV	_	12 stupid	advmod
12	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 declared	advcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 catch	mark
14	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 stupid	xcomp
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 wolf	det
16	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 catch	obj
17	by	by	ADP	_	19 tail	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 tail	det
19	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 catch	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 declared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	declare speech: other	present · perfect	you		often property	vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	I		stupid property	tree rules
3	catch	to-infinitive	I not said here	a wolf	by the tail	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Theme

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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