The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 40

‘I’m speaking in sober earnest,’ said Simon; ‘it wouldn’t occur to me to make a joke of it.’

Who acts: I, Simon, fool · What happens: speak, say, not occur, make, joke · To what, where: me, joke · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, 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, Simon, fool), 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	_	4 speaking	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 speaking	nsubj
3	’m	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 speaking	aux
4	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 said	ccomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 sober	case
6	sober	sober	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 earnest	obl
7	earnest	earn	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 speaking	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 speaking	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 speaking	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Simon	Simon	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 occur	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 occur	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 occur	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 occur	aux
16	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 occur	advmod
17	occur	occur	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 me	case
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 occur	obl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 make	mark
21	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 occur	advcl
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 joke	det
23	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 make	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 it	case
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 joke	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 occur	punct
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	17 occur	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	speak speech: other	present · progressive	I			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	Simon			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not occur	would	fool		me	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	make	to-infinitive	fool not said here	a joke of fool		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset joke=Product
5	joke		fool			nom joke «communication intransitive»: of=agent

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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