The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 44
‘What! when all went so ill with us, do you suppose that you are going to succeed?
Who acts: you · What happens: go, suppose, succeed · 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 (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 | _ | 6 went | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 went | obl |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 What | punct |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 went | advmod |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 went | advmod |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 ill | advmod |
| 8 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 went | xcomp |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 us | case |
| 10 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 ill | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 suppose | punct |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 suppose | aux |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 suppose | nsubj |
| 14 | suppose | suppose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 went | conj |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 going | mark |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 going | nsubj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 going | aux |
| 18 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 suppose | ccomp |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 succeed | mark |
| 20 | succeed | succeed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 going | xcomp |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | ill property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | suppose | present · do-support | you | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go | present · progressive | you | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | succeed | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: 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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