The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 38

‘What CAN there be in that twelfth cellar,’ he thought to himself, ‘which I must not see?’

Who acts: CAN, I · What happens: be, think, not see · To what, where: twelfth cellar, CAN · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (CAN, 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	_	9 cellar	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 cellar	nsubj
3	CAN	CAN	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 What	nsubj
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 What	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 cellar	cop
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 cellar	case
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 cellar	det
8	twelfth	twelfth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cellar	amod
9	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 thought	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cellar	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 cellar	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 thought	nsubj
13	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 himself	case
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 thought	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 see	punct
17	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 see	punct
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 see	obj
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 see	nsubj
20	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 see	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 see	advmod
22	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 thought	ccomp
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	22 see	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	22 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	roles by
1	is	infinitive			that twelfth cellar	tree rules
2	think speech: other	past	CAN	CAN		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	not see	must	I			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus

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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