The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 3

‘Perhaps the river will take me to Kay,’ thought Gerda.

Who acts: river · What happens: take, think · To what, where: me, Kay, Gerda · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (river), 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 take	punct
2	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	6 take	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 river	det
4	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 take	aux
6	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 thought	ccomp
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 take	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 Kay	case
9	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 take	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 take	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 take	punct
12	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 thought	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	future	the river	me	Kay			perhaps property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to kay=Destination
2	think speech: other	past		Gerda					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent gerda=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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