The Green Fairy Book, Fairy Gifts, sentence 34
Indeed, I had nearly decided that I would ask a similar gift.’
Who acts: I · What happens: decide, ask · To what, where: similar gift
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Fairy Gifts. 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 | Indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 6 decided | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Indeed | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 decided | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 decided | aux |
| 5 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 6 decided | advmod |
| 6 | decided | decide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 ask | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 ask | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 ask | aux |
| 10 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 decided | advcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 gift | det |
| 12 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 gift | amod |
| 13 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ask | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 decided | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 decided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | past · perfect | I | indeed, nearly property | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | would | I | a similar gift | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent gift=Recipient |
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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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