The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 95

‘I was thinking what a beautiful club it was, and what a pity it is that it should cause your death.’

Who acts: I, club, your · What happens: think, pity, be, die · To what, where: pity

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, club, your), 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	_	4 thinking	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 thinking	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thinking	aux
4	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 thinking	ccomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 club	det
7	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 club	amod
8	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 what	nsubj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 was	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 club	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 pity	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 pity	cc
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 pity	nsubj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 pity	det
15	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thinking	obl
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 cause	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 cause	cop
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 cause	mark
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 cause	nsubj
20	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 cause	aux
21	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 pity	acl:relcl
22	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 death	nmod:poss
23	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cause	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 pity	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 thinking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past · progressive	I			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	pity					tree rules
3	is	should · present	club	a pity not said here	cause property	tree rules
4	die		your			nom death «event intransitive»: 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 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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