The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 50

Surely I must have been blind last night!’

Who acts: I · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18. 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	Surely	surely	ADV	_	6 blind	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 blind	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 blind	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 blind	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 blind	cop
6	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 night	amod
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 blind	obl:unmarked
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 blind	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 blind	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	must · perfect	I				night	blind, surely property	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 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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