The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 126
‘For my part,’ said the Priest, ‘I can’t imagine myself being made a fool of by such a fellow as that!’
Who acts: Priest, I · What happens: say, not imagine, make · To what, where: myself · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Priest, 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 part | punct |
| 2 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 part | case |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 part | nmod:poss |
| 4 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 part | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 part | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Priest | det |
| 9 | Priest | Priest | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 imagine | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 imagine | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 imagine | nsubj |
| 13 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 imagine | aux |
| 14 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 imagine | advmod |
| 15 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 16 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 made | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 made | aux:pass |
| 18 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 imagine | ccomp |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 fool | det |
| 20 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 made | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 fellow | case |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 fellow | case |
| 23 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 fellow | det:predet |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 fellow | det |
| 25 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fool | nmod |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 that | case |
| 27 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 fellow | nmod |
| 28 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 15 imagine | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 imagine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Priest | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not imagine | can | I | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | make | gerund · passive | myself | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary fool=Product |
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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