The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 46

Really, I thought you’d have had more gumption than that; they wouldn’t have taken me in in that way.’

Who acts: I, rascals · What happens: think, have, not take · To what, where: you, more gumption, me, way · 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, rascals), 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	Really	really	ADV	_	4 thought	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Really	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	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 thought	obj
6	’d	'd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 had	compound
7	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 had	aux
8	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 thought	ccomp
9	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 gumption	amod
10	gumption	gumption	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	obj
11	than	than	ADP	_	12 that	case
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 gumption	nmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 taken	punct
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 taken	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 taken	aux
16	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 taken	advmod
17	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 taken	aux
18	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 thought	conj
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 taken	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	23 way	case
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 way	case
22	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 way	det
23	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 taken	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	I	you			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent you=Attribute clause=Theme
2	have	present · perfect		more gumption		than that	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gumption=Patient
3	not take	would · perfect	rascals = rascal	me	that way		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent i=Value in way=Location

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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