The Green Fairy Book, Jack My Hedgehog, sentence 4

At length he grew so angry that he exclaimed: ‘I must and will have a child of some sort or kind, even should it only be a hedgehog!’

Who acts: farmer, I, thing · What happens: grow, exclaim, have, be · To what, where: length, child, hedgehog

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 (farmer, I, thing), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grew	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 grew	nsubj
4	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 angry	advmod
6	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grew	xcomp
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 exclaimed	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 exclaimed	nsubj
9	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 angry	advcl
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 have	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 have	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 have	nsubj
13	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 have	aux
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 have	cc
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 have	aux
16	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 grew	parataxis
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 child	det
18	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 have	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 sort	case
20	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	21 sort	det
21	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 child	nmod
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 kind	cc
23	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 sort	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 hedgehog	punct
25	even	even	ADV	_	26 should	advmod
26	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 hedgehog	aux
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 hedgehog	nsubj
28	only	only	ADV	_	31 hedgehog	advmod
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 hedgehog	cop
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 hedgehog	det
31	hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 have	conj
32	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 have	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	16 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grow	past	farmer		length	angry property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at length=Location
2	exclaim speech: express	past	farmer				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	have	must · future	I	a child of some sort			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
4	is a	should	thing	a hedgehog			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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