The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 29

However, I thought she deserved a little lesson, so to begin with I have whisked her off into the desert, and there left her!’

Who acts: I, Nature · What happens: think, deserve, begin, whisk off, leave · To what, where: little lesson, Nature · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Nature), 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	However	however	ADV	_	4 thought	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 deserved	nsubj
6	deserved	deserve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	ccomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 lesson	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 lesson	amod
9	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 deserved	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 begin	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	13 begin	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 begin	mark
13	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 deserved	advcl
14	with	with	SCONJ	_	17 whisked	mark
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 whisked	nsubj
16	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 whisked	aux
17	whisked	whisk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 begin	advcl
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 whisked	obj
19	off	off	ADP	_	17 whisked	compound:prt
20	into	into	ADP	_	22 desert	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 desert	det
22	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 whisked	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 left	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 left	cc
25	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 left	advmod
26	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	conj
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 left	obj
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	26 left	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	26 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	I			however property	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	deserve	past	Nature	a little lesson			tree rules
3	begin	to-infinitive	Nature not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	whisk off	present · perfect	I	Nature		into the desert	vn shake-22.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient into desert=Co-Patient
5	leave	past	I not said here	Nature	there		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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 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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