The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 3, sentence 67

‘I have pulled my tail off,’ replied the younger Mouse, ‘but as I should still be on the sorcerer’s table unless I had, I do not regret it.

Who acts: I · What happens: pull off, reply, be, have, not regret · To what, where: tail, younger Mouse, table · Speech: someone speaks here

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), 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	_	4 pulled	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 pulled	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 pulled	aux
4	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 replied	ccomp
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 tail	nmod:poss
6	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pulled	obj
7	off	off	ADP	_	4 pulled	compound:prt
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 pulled	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 replied	punct
10	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Mouse	det
12	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 Mouse	amod
13	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 replied	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 table	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	26 table	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 table	cc
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 table	mark
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 table	nsubj
19	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 table	aux
20	still	still	ADV	_	26 table	advmod
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 table	cop
22	on	on	ADP	_	26 table	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 sorcerer	det
24	sorcerer	sorcerer	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 table	nmod:poss
25	’s	's	PART	_	24 sorcerer	case
26	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 replied	obl
27	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	29 had	mark
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 had	nsubj
29	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 replied	advcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 regret	punct
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 regret	nsubj
32	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 regret	aux
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 regret	advmod
34	regret	regret	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 had	conj
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 regret	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	pull off	present · perfect	I	my tail			vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Eventuality
2	reply speech: assert	past		the younger Mouse			tree rules
3	is	should	I		the sorcerer's table	still	tree rules
4	have a condition, not said to happen	past	I				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	not regret	present · do-support	I	tail			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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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