The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, sentence 39

‘_I_ should have called her a screech owl.’

What happens: call · To what, where: I · 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: 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	_	7 called	punct
2	_	_	PUNCT	_	3 I	punct
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 called	nsubj:pass
4	_	_	PUNCT	_	3 I	punct
5	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 called	aux
6	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 called	aux
7	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 called	obj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 owl	det
10	screech	screech	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 owl	compound
11	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 called	xcomp
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 called	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	should · perfect · passive		I					vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme she=Result

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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