The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 2
I don't know why I was ever hatched, for I am too ugly to live.'
Who acts: I · What happens: not know, hatch, be, live · To what, where: I · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, 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 know | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 know | advmod |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 hatched | advmod |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 hatched | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 hatched | aux:pass |
| 8 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 9 hatched | advmod |
| 9 | hatched | hatch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 know | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ugly | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 ugly | mark |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 ugly | nsubj |
| 13 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 ugly | cop |
| 14 | too | too | ADV | _ | 15 ugly | advmod |
| 15 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hatched | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 live | mark |
| 17 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 ugly | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | present · do-support | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | hatch | past · passive | I | ever | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: subject=Product | ||||
| 3 | is | present | I | ugly property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | live | to-infinitive | I not said here | 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: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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