The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 91

I feel sure he will defy us!’

Who acts: I, Fairy · What happens: feel, defy · To what, where: us

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, 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 (I, Fairy), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 feel	nsubj
2	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 feel	xcomp
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 defy	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 defy	aux
6	defy	defy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sure	ccomp
7	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 defy	obj
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 feel	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 feel	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	present	I					sure property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	defy	future	Fairy	us					tree rules

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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