The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 99
‘I was just going to tell you that one thing, my dear, to show you what a good fortune-teller I am.
Who acts: I, going · What happens: go, tell, show, be · To what, where: you, good fortune teller · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, going), 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 going | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 going | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 going | aux |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 going | advmod |
| 5 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 show | csubj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 tell | mark |
| 7 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 going | xcomp |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 tell | iobj |
| 9 | that | that | ADP | _ | 11 thing | case |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 thing | nummod |
| 11 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tell | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 dear | punct |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 dear | nmod:poss |
| 14 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 going | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 show | punct |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 show | mark |
| 17 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 show | iobj |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 show | obj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 teller | det |
| 21 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 teller | amod |
| 22 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 teller | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 fortune | punct |
| 24 | teller | teller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 what | nsubj |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 am | nsubj |
| 26 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 teller | cop |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 show | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · progressive | I | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | I not said here | you | that one thing | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | |||
| 3 | show | to-infinitive | going | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient what=Topic | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | a good fortune teller | tree rules |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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