The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 88

‘I should like nothing better,’ said the man, as he stooped to undo the big knot.

Who acts: I, man · What happens: like, say, stoop, undo · To what, where: nothing, big knot · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (I, man), 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 like	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 like	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 like	aux
4	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 like	obj
6	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 nothing	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 man	det
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 stooped	punct
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 stooped	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 stooped	nsubj
15	stooped	stoop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 undo	mark
17	undo	undo	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 stooped	xcomp
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 knot	det
19	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 knot	amod
20	knot	knot	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 undo	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	like	should	I	nothing	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot nothing=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the man		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	stoop	past	man		tree rules
4	undo	to-infinitive	man not said here	the big knot	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knot=Patient

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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