The Yellow Fairy Book, The White Duck, sentence 16

‘No, I think not,’ answered the Queen; but the next moment she regretted her words, and thought to herself: Why shouldn’t I bathe in that cool, fresh water?

Who acts: I, next moment, Queen · What happens: not think, answer, regret, think, not bathe, word · To what, where: Queen, words

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Duck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, next moment, Queen), 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	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 think	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 think	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 think	nsubj
5	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 think	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 think	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 answered	punct
9	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 think	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Queen	det
11	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 answered	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 regretted	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 regretted	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 moment	det
15	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 moment	amod
16	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 regretted	nsubj
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 regretted	nsubj
18	regretted	regret	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 think	parataxis
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 words	nmod:poss
20	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 regretted	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 thought	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 thought	cc
23	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 regretted	conj
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 herself	case
25	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 thought	obl
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	31 bathe	punct
27	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	31 bathe	advmod
28	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 bathe	aux
29	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 bathe	advmod
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 bathe	nsubj
31	bathe	bathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 regretted	conj
32	in	in	ADP	_	37 water	case
33	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	37 water	nsubj
34	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 water	amod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 cool	punct
36	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 water	amod
37	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 bathe	obl
38	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not think speech: other	present	I				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	answer speech: assert	past	I not said here		the Queen		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent queen=Eventuality
3	regret	past	the next moment	Queen's words			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
4	think speech: other	participle	the next moment not said here		Queen		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not bathe	should	I			in cool fresh water	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in water=Theme
6	word		Queen				nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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