English Fairy Tales, Tom Tit Tot, sentence 53
Well, she thought she'd be sure to guess that's name before the month was up.
Who acts: thing, that · What happens: think, be, guess, name, be up · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Tom Tit Tot. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thing, that), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 thought | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sure | nsubj |
| 6 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 sure | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 sure | cop |
| 8 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 thought | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 guess | mark |
| 10 | guess | guess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 sure | xcomp |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 name | nsubj |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 that | case |
| 13 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 guess | obj |
| 14 | before | before | ADP | _ | 16 month | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 month | det |
| 16 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 guess | obl |
| 17 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sure | ccomp |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 was | compound:prt |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | thing | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | would | thing | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | guess | to-infinitive | thing not said here | month | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | name | that | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | be up | past | thing not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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