The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 17
“Nothing, nothing, my son; there is only one thing in the world that troubles me.”
Who acts: Nothing, world · What happens: be, trouble · To what, where: world, morning son
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nothing, world), 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 | _ | 2 Nothing | punct |
| 2 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 16 world | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 nothing | punct |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 Nothing | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 son | punct |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 son | nmod:poss |
| 7 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Nothing | conj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 is | punct |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 is | expl |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 world | cop |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 12 one | advmod |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 thing | nummod |
| 13 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 is | nsubj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 world | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 world | det |
| 16 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 troubles | nsubj |
| 18 | troubles | trouble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 world | acl:relcl |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 troubles | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 world | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 world | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Nothing | the world | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | trouble in a quote | present | the world | queen's morning son = son | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer |
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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