The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 40
“Surely I can have done no great wrong in just kicking a tiresome animal!
Who acts: Darling · What happens: do, kick · To what, where: great wrong, tiresome animal
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Darling), 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 | _ | 6 done | punct |
| 2 | Surely | surely | ADV | _ | 6 done | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 done | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 done | aux |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 done | aux |
| 6 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 wrong | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wrong | amod |
| 9 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 done | obl |
| 10 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 12 kicking | mark |
| 11 | just | just | ADV | _ | 12 kicking | advmod |
| 12 | kicking | kick | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 done | advcl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 animal | det |
| 14 | tiresome | tiresome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 animal | amod |
| 15 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 kicking | obj |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | can · perfect | Darling | no great wrong | surely property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | kick in a quote | gerund | Darling not said here | a tiresome animal | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent animal=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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