The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 96

‘Why, I could have sworn I had been a squirrel, a companion of guinea pigs and such creatures, and had become a great cook, too.

Who acts: I · What happens: swear, be, become · To what, where: squirrel, great cook

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1. 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	7 sworn	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 sworn	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Why	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 sworn	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 sworn	aux
6	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 sworn	aux
7	sworn	swear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 squirrel	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 squirrel	aux
10	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 squirrel	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 squirrel	det
12	squirrel	squirrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sworn	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 companion	punct
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 companion	det
15	companion	companion	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 squirrel	nmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 pigs	case
17	guinea	guinea	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 pigs	compound
18	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 companion	nmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 creatures	cc
20	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 creatures	amod
21	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 pigs	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 become	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 become	cc
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 become	aux
25	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 sworn	conj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 cook	det
27	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 cook	amod
28	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 become	xcomp
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 too	punct
30	too	too	ADV	_	7 sworn	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 sworn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	swear	could · perfect	I			vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past · perfect	I	a squirrel	a companion of guinea pigs and such creatures nmod	tree rules
3	become	past · perfect	I not said here	a great cook		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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