The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 68

‘Oh, nothing,’ said he, ‘I was just amusing myself with counting the packs of wolves in the forest, but there are really so many of them that I don’t think I should ever be done.’

Who acts: prince, I, many · What happens: say, be, count, not think, do · To what, where: packs, I · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, I, many), 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	_	7 said	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	7 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 Oh	vocative
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 amusing	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 amusing	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 amusing	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 amusing	cop
13	just	just	ADV	_	14 amusing	advmod
14	amusing	amusing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 said	ccomp
15	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	14 amusing	obl:unmarked
16	with	with	SCONJ	_	17 counting	mark
17	counting	count	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 amusing	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 packs	det
19	packs	pack	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 counting	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 wolves	case
21	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 packs	nmod
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 forest	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 forest	det
24	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 wolves	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 are	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 are	cc
27	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	28 are	expl
28	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
29	really	really	ADV	_	31 many	advmod
30	so	so	ADV	_	31 many	advmod
31	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 are	nsubj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 them	case
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 many	nmod
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 think	mark
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 think	nsubj
36	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 think	aux
37	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 think	advmod
38	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 many	advcl
39	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 done	nsubj
40	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 done	aux
41	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	43 done	advmod
42	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	43 done	aux:pass
43	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 think	ccomp
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
45	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	prince					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	I				myself obl:unmarked; amusing property	tree rules
3	count	gerund	I not said here	the packs of wolves in the forest				vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pack=Theme
4	be	present	many of wolves		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	not think speech: other	present · do-support	I					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	do	should · passive		I		ever		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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