The Violet Fairy Book, The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground, sentence 39

Shall I say something like this: “Shut; shut; shut”?’

Who acts: I · What happens: say · To what, where: something · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground. 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	Shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 say	aux
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 say	nsubj
3	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 say	obj
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 this	case
6	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 something	nmod
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 Shut	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 Shut	punct
9	Shut	shut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 say	parataxis
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 shut	punct
11	shut	shut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Shut	conj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 shut	punct
13	shut	shut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Shut	conj
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 Shut	punct
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	shall	I	something				like this	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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