The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 34
‘That’s a nice little fellow; I should like to keep him.
Who acts: That, I · What happens: be, like, keep · To what, where: nice little fellow, Mark
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, 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 fellow | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 fellow | nsubj |
| 3 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 fellow | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 fellow | det |
| 5 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fellow | amod |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fellow | amod |
| 7 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 like | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 like | nsubj |
| 10 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 like | aux |
| 11 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 fellow | acl:relcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 keep | mark |
| 13 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 like | xcomp |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 keep | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 fellow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | That | a nice little fellow | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | like | should | I | a nice little fellow not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | keep not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | Mark | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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