The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 62

But when the man once more saw this he said to himself, ‘What a bad business this is!

Who acts: man, bad business · What happens: see, say, be · To what, where: this, man · 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 (man, bad business), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 saw	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 saw	nsubj
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 saw	advmod
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 saw	advmod
7	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	advcl
8	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 saw	obj
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 himself	case
12	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 said	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 What	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 What	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 said	ccomp
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 business	det
17	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 business	amod
18	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 What	nsubj
19	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 What	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 What	cop
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	the man	this		once property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	man		man		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient
3	is a	present	a bad business				tree rules

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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