The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 3, sentence 21
‘I have an idea that you will soon overtake her.’
Who acts: I, you · What happens: have, overtake · To what, where: idea, woman
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, 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 (I, you), 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 | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 idea | det |
| 5 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 overtake | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 overtake | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 overtake | aux |
| 9 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 overtake | advmod |
| 10 | overtake | overtake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 idea | acl |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 overtake | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | a idea | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient | ||||
| 2 | overtake | future | you | woman | soon property | tree rules |
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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