The Violet Fairy Book, The Envious Neighbour, sentence 25
And I thought I had better come straight and tell you.’
Who acts: I · What happens: think, have, come, tell · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Envious Neighbour. 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 thought | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | ccomp |
| 6 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 had | advmod |
| 7 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 had | xcomp |
| 8 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 7 come | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 tell | cc |
| 10 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 come | conj |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 tell | iobj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have | past | I | well property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come | infinitive | I not said here | straight property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | I not said here | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
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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