The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 86
I could not bear to be anybody’s servant, as all my brothers and sisters are.”
Who acts: I · What happens: not bear, be · To what, where: servant
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10. 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 | 4 bear | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 bear | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 bear | advmod |
| 4 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 servant | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 servant | cop |
| 7 | anybody | anybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 servant | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 anybody | case |
| 9 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bear | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 are | punct |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 are | mark |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 brothers | det:predet |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 14 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 are | dislocated |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sisters | cc |
| 16 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 brothers | conj |
| 17 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 bear | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bear | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 bear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not bear | could | I | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | I not said here | anybody's servant | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | present | I not said here | my brothers and sisters dislocated | 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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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