The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 92

‘I can’t understand him,’ said the Snow-man; ‘but I have an idea that he is speaking of something unpleasant.

Who acts: I, Snow man, man · What happens: not understand, say, have, speak · To what, where: dog, idea · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Snow man, man), 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	_	5 understand	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 understand	nsubj
3	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 understand	aux
4	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 understand	advmod
5	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 understand	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 understand	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 understand	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 man	det
11	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 man	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 Snow	punct
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 have	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 but	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 have	cc
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 have	nsubj
18	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 idea	det
20	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 have	obj
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 speaking	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 speaking	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 speaking	aux
24	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 idea	acl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 something	case
26	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	24 speaking	obl
27	unpleasant	unpleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 something	amod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not understand	can	I	dog		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	the Snow man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have	present	I	a idea		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient
4	speak speech: other	present · progressive	man	a idea not said here	of something	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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