The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 66

‘I should never have thought it!

Who acts: I · What happens: not think · To what, where: invention

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nightingale. 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 thought	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 thought	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 thought	aux
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 thought	advmod
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 thought	aux
6	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 thought	obj
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not think speech: other	should · perfect	I	invention					vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=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 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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