The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 3, sentence 36

Drakestail said to himself, ‘One can’t have too many friends.’...

Who acts: Drakestail, One · What happens: say, not have · To what, where: Drakestail, many friends · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Drakestail, One), 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	Drakestail	Drakestail	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 himself	case
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 said	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 have	punct
6	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 have	punct
7	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 have	nsubj
8	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 have	aux
9	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 have	advmod
10	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
11	too	too	ADV	_	12 many	advmod
12	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 friends	amod
13	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 have	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 have	punct
15	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 have	punct
16	...	...	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Drakestail		Drakestail				vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to himself=Experiencer clause=Topic
2	not have	can	One	many friends					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=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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