The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 28

‘I hope,’ said the clerk, ‘that he would not behave so contemptibly after all the trouble I have had to teach him, and all that I have spent upon him.

Who acts: I, man, trouble · What happens: hope, say, not behave, have, teach, spend · To what, where: clerk, trouble, man, that · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, man, trouble), 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	_	3 hope	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 hope	nsubj
3	hope	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 hope	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hope	parataxis
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 clerk	det
8	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 behave	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 behave	punct
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 behave	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 behave	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 behave	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 behave	advmod
15	behave	behave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	conj
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 contemptibly	advmod
17	contemptibly	contemptibly	ADV	_	15 behave	advmod
18	after	after	ADP	_	21 trouble	case
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 trouble	det:predet
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 trouble	det
21	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 behave	obl
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 had	nsubj
23	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 had	aux
24	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 trouble	acl:relcl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 teach	mark
26	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 had	xcomp
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 teach	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 spent	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 spent	cc
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 spent	det:predet
31	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 spent	nsubj:pass
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 spent	nsubj
33	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 spent	aux
34	spent	spend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 hope	conj
35	upon	upon	ADP	_	36 him	case
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 spent	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hope	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	hope	present	I					vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	say speech: assert	past		the clerk				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent clerk=Topic
3	not behave	would	man			after all trouble	contemptibly property	vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent
4	have	present · perfect	I	all trouble not said here				tree rules
5	teach speech: other	to-infinitive	all trouble not said here		man			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
6	spend	present · perfect · passive		that			upon man	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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