The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 104
I hope my father won’t be vexed at our delay.”
Who acts: I · What happens: hope, not vex · To what, where: father, delay · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5. 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 | 2 hope | nsubj |
| 2 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 father | nmod:poss |
| 4 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 vexed | nsubj |
| 5 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 vexed | aux |
| 6 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 vexed | advmod |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 vexed | aux:pass |
| 8 | vexed | vex | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 hope | ccomp |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 delay | case |
| 10 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 delay | nmod:poss |
| 11 | delay | delay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 vexed | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hope | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 hope | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hope | present | I | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not vex | future · passive | my father | our delay | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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