The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 56
“I’m looking at this tree.
Who acts: magpie · What happens: be, look
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magpie), 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 ’m | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 ’m | nsubj |
| 3 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 ’m | xcomp |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 tree | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 tree | det |
| 7 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looking | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’m | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | the magpie = magpie | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | look in a quote | gerund | the magpie = magpie not said here | at this tree | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at tree=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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