The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4, sentence 42

He had a thousand questions to ask, and a thousand things to tell.

Who acts: Petru · What happens: have, ask, tell · To what, where: thousand questions · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Petru), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 questions	det
4	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 questions	nummod
5	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 ask	mark
7	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 things	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 things	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 thousand	det
11	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 things	nummod
12	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	parataxis
13	to	to	PART	_	14 tell	mark
14	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 things	acl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have	past	Petru	a thousand questions	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent question=Patient
2	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	Petru not said here		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	Petru not said here		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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