The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 36

‘Well, I shall have to propose to the hair-brush!’ thought the shirt-collar.

Who acts: I · What happens: have, propose, think · To what, where: hair brush, shirt collar · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6. 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	6 have	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 have	nsubj
5	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 have	aux
6	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 thought	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 propose	mark
8	propose	propose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 have	xcomp
9	to	to	ADP	_	13 brush	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 brush	det
11	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 brush	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 hair	punct
13	brush	brush	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 propose	obl
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct
15	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct
16	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 collar	det
18	shirt	shirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 collar	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 shirt	punct
20	collar	collar	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 thought	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	have	shall	I			tree rules
2	propose	to-infinitive	I not said here		the hair brush	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to brush=Recipient
3	think speech: other	past		the shirt collar		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent collar=Attribute clause=Theme

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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