The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 30

“‘Madam Ragotte,’ said I, ‘when one is at the bottom of a pit where one has fully expected to be roasted alive, it is impossible to think of asking such a charming person as you are to marry one!

Who acts: Madam, one, you · What happens: say, be, expect, roast, think, ask · To what, where: bottom, one, charming person · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Madam, one, you), 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	_	7 said	punct
2	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 Madam	punct
3	Madam	Madam	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
4	Ragotte	Ragotte	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Madam	flat
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Madam	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 Madam	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 bottom	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 bottom	punct
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 bottom	advmod
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 bottom	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 bottom	cop
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 bottom	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bottom	det
16	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 pit	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 pit	det
19	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bottom	nmod
20	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	24 expected	advmod
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 expected	nsubj:pass
22	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 expected	aux
23	fully	fully	ADV	_	24 expected	advmod
24	expected	expect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 pit	acl:relcl
25	to	to	PART	_	27 roasted	mark
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 roasted	aux:pass
27	roasted	roast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 expected	xcomp
28	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 roasted	xcomp
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 impossible	punct
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 impossible	expl
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 impossible	cop
32	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 said	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 think	mark
34	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 impossible	csubj
35	of	of	SCONJ	_	36 asking	mark
36	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 think	advcl
37	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	40 person	det:predet
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 person	det
39	charming	charming	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 person	compound
40	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 asking	obj
41	as	as	SCONJ	_	43 are	mark
42	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	43 are	nsubj
43	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 think	advcl
44	to	to	PART	_	45 marry	mark
45	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 are	xcomp
46	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	45 marry	obj
47	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Madam					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	one			the bottom	of a pit	tree rules
3	expect in a quote	present · perfect · passive		one			fully property	tree rules
4	roast not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive · passive	one not said here				alive property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»
5	is in a quote	present	Madam not said here				impossible property	tree rules
6	think speech: other in a quote	to-infinitive						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	ask speech: ask in a quote	gerund			such charming person			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent person=Recipient
8	does in a quote	present	you					tree rules
9	marry in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	one				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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 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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