The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 3, sentence 6
I am surprised at his not having done so sooner.’
Who acts: I · What happens: be, do
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 surprised | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 surprised | cop |
| 3 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 8 done | mark |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 done | nmod:poss |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 having | advmod |
| 7 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 done | aux |
| 8 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 surprised | advcl |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 sooner | advmod |
| 10 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 done | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 surprised | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 surprised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | surprised property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | gerund · perfect | I not said here | soon property | vn act-114-1 «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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