The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 57

‘Ah, child,’ answered the king, ‘how could I ever guess that the rich Don Giovanni would ever look like that?

Who acts: child, I, rich Don Giovanni · What happens: answer, guess, look · To what, where: king

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, I, rich Don Giovanni), 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 child	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	4 child	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 answered	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 child	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 child	punct
7	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 king	det
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 answered	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 guess	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 guess	punct
12	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	16 guess	advmod
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 guess	aux
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 guess	nsubj
15	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	16 guess	advmod
16	guess	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 answered	conj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 look	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Giovanni	det
19	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 Giovanni	amod
20	Don	Don	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Giovanni	compound
21	Giovanni	Giovanni	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 look	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 look	aux
23	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	24 look	advmod
24	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 guess	advcl
25	like	like	ADP	_	26 that	case
26	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 look	obl
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	child	the king			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent king=Eventuality
2	guess	could	I		ever		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	look	would	the rich Don Giovanni		ever	like that	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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