The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 20

He would think hanging too good for me.’

Who acts: Fanfaronade · What happens: think, hang · To what, where: good

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fanfaronade), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 think	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 think	aux
3	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	hanging	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 think	xcomp
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 good	advmod
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hanging	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 me	case
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 good	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 think	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	would	Fanfaronade						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	hang	gerund	Fanfaronade not said here	good					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=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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