The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 29
‘I should just think there was,’ replied the other; ‘many things that don’t exist anywhere else in the world.
Who acts: I, many things · What happens: think, be, reply, not exist · To what, where: many things, other, world · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, many things), 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 think | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 think | nsubj |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 think | aux |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 think | advmod |
| 5 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 was | expl |
| 7 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 think | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
| 10 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 think | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 other | det |
| 12 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 replied | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 things | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 things | punct |
| 15 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 things | amod |
| 16 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 think | obl |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 exist | nsubj |
| 18 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 exist | aux |
| 19 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 exist | advmod |
| 20 | exist | exist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 things | acl:relcl |
| 21 | anywhere | anywhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 20 exist | advmod |
| 22 | else | else | ADV | _ | 21 anywhere | advmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 world | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 world | det |
| 25 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 exist | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | should | I | many things | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | be | past | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | the other | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent other=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not exist | present · do-support | many things | the world | anywhere property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in world=Location |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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