The Green Fairy Book, Jack My Hedgehog, sentence 27

The creature won’t understand a word about it, so I can just write what I choose.’

Who acts: creature, I · What happens: not understand, write, choose · To what, where: word

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jack My Hedgehog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (creature, I), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 creature	det
2	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 understand	nsubj
3	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 understand	aux
4	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 understand	advmod
5	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 word	det
7	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 understand	obj
8	about	about	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 word	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 write	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	15 write	advmod
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 write	nsubj
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 write	aux
14	just	just	ADV	_	15 write	advmod
15	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 understand	conj
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 choose	obj
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 choose	nsubj
18	choose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 write	ccomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 understand	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 understand	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not understand	future	the creature	a word	about word	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
2	write	can	I			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	choose	present	I			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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