The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 1, sentence 53
“I think I must have ridden friskier horses before now.”
Who acts: I · What happens: think, ride · To what, where: friskier horses · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | _ | 3 think | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 think | nsubj |
| 3 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 ridden | nsubj |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 ridden | aux |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 ridden | aux |
| 7 | ridden | ride | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 think | ccomp |
| 8 | friskier | frisky | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 horses | amod |
| 9 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 ridden | obj |
| 10 | before | before | ADP | _ | 11 now | case |
| 11 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 ridden | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | present | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | ride in a quote | must · perfect | I | friskier horses | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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