The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 49

‘Shall I go back and say that I struck one wolf and it escaped?’ thought Walter.

Who acts: I, corner · What happens: go back, say, strike, escape, think · To what, where: one wolf, Walter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac 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 (I, corner), 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 go	punct
2	Shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 go	nsubj
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 thought	ccomp
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 go	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 say	cc
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 go	conj
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 struck	mark
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 struck	nsubj
10	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	ccomp
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 wolf	nummod
12	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 struck	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 escaped	cc
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 escaped	nsubj
15	escaped	escape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 struck	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct
17	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct
18	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	Walter	Walter	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 thought	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	go back	shall	I		vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	I not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	strike	past	I	one wolf	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Patient
4	escape	past	corner		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	think speech: other	past		Walter	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent walter=Attribute clause=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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