Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Miller of the Dee., sentence 8
"I envy no-body--no, not I!-- For I am as happy as I can be; And nobody envies me."
Who acts: miller, nobody · What happens: envy, be · To what, where: body, miller
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Miller of the Dee.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (miller, nobody), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 envy | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 envy | nsubj |
| 3 | envy | envy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 body | det |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 no | punct |
| 6 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 envy | obj |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 3 envy | punct |
| 8 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 3 envy | discourse |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 I | punct |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 I | advmod |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 envy | conj |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 I | punct |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 18 happy | punct |
| 14 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 happy | mark |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 happy | nsubj |
| 16 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 happy | cop |
| 17 | as | as | ADV | _ | 18 happy | advmod |
| 18 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 envy | conj |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 be | mark |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 be | nsubj |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 be | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 happy | advcl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 envies | punct |
| 24 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 envies | cc |
| 25 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 26 envies | nsubj |
| 26 | envies | envy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 envy | parataxis |
| 27 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 envies | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 envy | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 envy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | envy in a quote | present | the miller = miller | no body | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer body=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | the miller = miller | happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | envy in a quote | present | nobody | the miller = miller | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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