Fifty Famous Stories Retold, II. the Kitchen., sentence 10

I am afraid you are a lazy fellow, and that you want to live without work."

Who acts: I, you · What happens: be, want, live · To what, where: lazy fellow

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, II. the Kitchen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you), 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	3 afraid	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 afraid	cop
3	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 fellow	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 fellow	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 fellow	det
7	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fellow	amod
8	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 afraid	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 want	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 want	cc
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 want	mark
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 want	nsubj
13	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 afraid	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 live	mark
15	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 want	xcomp
16	without	without	ADP	_	17 work	case
17	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 live	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 afraid	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 afraid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	I		afraid property	tree rules
2	is a	present	you	a lazy fellow		tree rules
3	want	present	you			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	live not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here		without work	vn exist-47.1-1 «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: «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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