The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, sentence 37

‘I can hardly do that,’ said he, ‘for, to speak more plainly, I mean that I met the Duchess Grumbly, and have promised to marry her.’

Who acts: I, St. · What happens: do, say, speak, mean, meet, promise · To what, where: that, Duchess Grumbly, Grumbly · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, St.), 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 do	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 do	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 do	aux
4	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	5 do	advmod
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	parataxis
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 do	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 do	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 do	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 speak	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 he	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 speak	punct
13	for	for	SCONJ	_	16 speak	mark
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 speak	punct
15	to	to	PART	_	16 speak	mark
16	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
17	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	18 plainly	advmod
18	plainly	plainly	ADV	_	16 speak	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 mean	punct
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 mean	nsubj
21	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 met	mark
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 met	nsubj
24	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 mean	ccomp
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Grumbly	det
26	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Grumbly	compound
27	Grumbly	Grumbly	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 met	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 promised	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 promised	cc
30	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 promised	aux
31	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 said	ccomp
32	to	to	PART	_	33 marry	mark
33	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 promised	xcomp
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 marry	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	can	I	that	hardly property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	past				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	St.		plainly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	mean	present	I			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	meet	past	I	the Duchess Grumbly		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grumbly=Co-Agent
6	promise speech: promise	present · perfect				vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	marry not said to happen	to-infinitive		Grumbly		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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 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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