The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 42

He had a fancy to try to watch the seven foals himself, he said.

Who acts: Cinderlad, fancy, seven · What happens: have, try, watch, foal, say · To what, where: fancy, Cinderlad · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Seven Foals. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cinderlad, fancy, seven), 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	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 fancy	det
4	fancy	fancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 try	mark
6	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	xcomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 watch	mark
8	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 try	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 seven	det
10	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 foals	nsubj
11	foals	foal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 watch	ccomp
12	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 foals	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have	past	Cinderlad	a fancy	tree rules
2	try	to-infinitive	a fancy not said here		vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	watch not said to happen	to-infinitive	a fancy not said here		tree rules
4	foal	present	the seven	Cinderlad	vn calve-28.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
5	say speech: assert	past	Cinderlad		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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