The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 67

‘I don’t care about the reward,’ said the old woman, ‘but there is one thing I should like.

Who acts: I, old woman · What happens: not care, say, be, like · To what, where: one thing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, old woman), 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 care	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 care	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 care	aux
4	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 care	advmod
5	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 reward	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 reward	det
8	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 care	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 care	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 care	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 woman	det
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 woman	amod
14	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 thing	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 thing	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 is	cc
18	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	19 is	expl
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 thing	cop
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 thing	nummod
21	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 woman	appos
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 like	nsubj
23	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 like	aux
24	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 thing	acl:relcl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not care	present · do-support	I		about the reward	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about reward=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	the old woman			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is a	present		one thing		tree rules
4	like	should	I	one thing not said here		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot thing=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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