The Red Fairy Book, The True History of Little Golden Hood, sentence 40

‘Good!’ said the Wolf to himself, ‘I know what I’ll do.’

Who acts: Wolf, I · What happens: say, know, do · To what, where: story · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The True History of Little Golden Hood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wolf, 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	_	2 Good	punct
2	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	ccomp
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Good	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Good	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Wolf	det
7	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 himself	case
9	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 said	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 know	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 know	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 know	nsubj
13	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 do	obj
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 do	nsubj
16	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 do	aux
17	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 know	ccomp
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Wolf	story	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to himself=Experiencer clause=Topic
2	know	present	I		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	do	future	I		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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