The Red Fairy Book, Jack Sells the Cow, sentence 11
‘At least,’ he thought, ‘I will sow the wonderful beans.
Who acts: hope, I · What happens: think, sow · To what, where: least, wonderful beans · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jack Sells the Cow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hope, 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 least | punct |
| 2 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 least | case |
| 3 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 thought | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 least | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 least | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 thought | nsubj |
| 7 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sow | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 sow | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 sow | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 sow | aux |
| 12 | sow | sow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 thought | ccomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 beans | det |
| 14 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 beans | amod |
| 15 | beans | bean | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 sow | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | hope | least | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sow | future | I | the wonderful beans | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent bean=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 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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