The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 126

‘I must say your dumplings are always very good; but I don’t think I ever tasted anything so delicious as they were to-day.

Who acts: I, dumplings · What happens: say, be, not think, taste · To what, where: anything · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, dumplings), 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	_	4 say	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 say	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 dumplings	nmod:poss
6	dumplings	dumpling	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 good	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 good	cop
8	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	10 good	advmod
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 good	advmod
10	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 say	ccomp
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 think	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 think	cc
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 think	nsubj
14	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 think	aux
15	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 think	advmod
16	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 say	parataxis
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 tasted	nsubj
18	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	19 tasted	advmod
19	tasted	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 think	ccomp
20	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	19 tasted	obj
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 delicious	advmod
22	delicious	delicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 tasted	xcomp
23	as	as	ADP	_	28 day	case
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 day	nsubj
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 day	cop
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 day	case
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 to	punct
28	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 delicious	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	must	I				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	your dumplings			always, good property	tree rules
3	not think speech: other	present · do-support	I				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	taste	past	I	anything	ever	delicious property	vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme anything=Attribute
5	is	past	dumplings = dumpling		as day		tree rules

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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