The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 120
They would think I had taken leave of my senses.’
Who acts: neighbours, I · What happens: think, take · To what, where: leave · 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 (neighbours, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 think | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 think | aux |
| 3 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 taken | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 taken | aux |
| 6 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 think | ccomp |
| 7 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 taken | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 senses | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 senses | nmod:poss |
| 10 | senses | sens | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 leave | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | would | neighbours = neighbour | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | take | past · perfect | I | leave of my senses | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme |
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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