The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 67
I should certainly have committed a great crime.’
Who acts: I · What happens: commit · To what, where: great crime
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Lads. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 committed | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 committed | aux |
| 3 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 5 committed | advmod |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 committed | aux |
| 5 | committed | commit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 crime | det |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 crime | amod |
| 8 | crime | crime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 committed | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 committed | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 committed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | commit | should · perfect | I | a great crime | certainly property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crime=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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