The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 119

‘Fie,’ said she; ‘what a ridiculous thing to ask anyone to do; just think what the neighbours would say if they saw me.

Who acts: Fie, anyone, neighbours · What happens: say, thing, ask, do, think, see · To what, where: anyone, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jesper Who Herded the Hares. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fie, anyone, neighbours), 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	_	2 Fie	punct
2	Fie	Fie	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Fie	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Fie	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 thing	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 thing	punct
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 thing	nsubj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 thing	det
11	ridiculous	ridiculous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 thing	amod
12	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	ccomp
13	to	to	PART	_	14 ask	mark
14	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 thing	acl
15	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	14 ask	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 do	mark
17	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 ask	xcomp
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 think	punct
19	just	just	ADV	_	20 think	advmod
20	think	think	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 said	parataxis
21	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	25 say	obj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 neighbours	det
23	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 say	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 say	aux
25	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 think	ccomp
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 saw	mark
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 saw	nsubj
28	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 say	ccomp
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 saw	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Fie		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	thing				tree rules
3	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	Fie not said here	anyone	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent anyone=Recipient clause=Topic
4	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	anyone not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	think speech: other	infinitive			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	say speech: assert	would	the neighbours		tree rules
7	see a condition, not said to happen	past	neighbours = neighbour	me	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus

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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