The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 99
“I should have made a fine piece of work of it, truly; I find I drank too much last night.”
Who acts: ogresses, work · What happens: make, find, drink, work · To what, where: ogresses · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ogresses, work), 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 | _ | 5 made | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 made | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | aux |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 made | aux |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 piece | det |
| 7 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 piece | amod |
| 8 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 work | case |
| 10 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 piece | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 work | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 truly | punct |
| 14 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 5 made | advmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 find | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 find | nsubj |
| 17 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | parataxis |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 drank | nsubj |
| 19 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 find | ccomp |
| 20 | too | too | ADV | _ | 21 much | advmod |
| 21 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 night | amod |
| 22 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 night | amod |
| 23 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 drank | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 find | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make in a quote | should · perfect · passive | ogresses = ogress | truly property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary piece=Product | ||||
| 2 | find in a quote | present | ogresses = ogress | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | drink in a quote | past | ogresses = ogress | night | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | work in a quote | work | nom work «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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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