The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 1, sentence 16

But foolish people like you always think they can do without help or advice, and I observe that, in spite of all my goodness to you, you had not even the civility to invite me!’

Who acts: foolish people, people, I, you · What happens: think, do, observe, not civility, invite, spite · To what, where: that, spite, me, goodness · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (foolish people, people, I, you), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 think	cc
2	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 people	amod
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 think	nsubj
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 you	case
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 people	nmod
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 think	advmod
7	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 do	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 do	aux
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 think	ccomp
11	without	without	ADP	_	12 help	case
12	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 do	obl
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 advice	cc
14	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 help	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 observe	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 observe	cc
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 observe	nsubj
18	observe	observe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 think	conj
19	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 observe	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 spite	punct
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 spite	case
22	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 observe	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 goodness	case
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 goodness	det:predet
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 goodness	nmod:poss
26	goodness	goodness	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 spite	nmod
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 you	case
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 goodness	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 civility	punct
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 civility	nsubj
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 civility	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 civility	advmod
33	even	even	ADV	_	35 civility	advmod
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 civility	det
35	civility	civility	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 think	ccomp
36	to	to	PART	_	37 invite	mark
37	invite	invite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 civility	acl
38	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 invite	obj
39	!	!	PUNCT	_	35 civility	punct
40	’	'	PUNCT	_	35 civility	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	foolish people like you				always property	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	do	can	people				without help or advice	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	observe	present	I	that		spite of my goodness to you		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent that=Topic
4	not civility	past	you					tree rules
5	invite	to-infinitive	foolish people like you not said here		me			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
6	spite			my goodness to you				nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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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