The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 67
Yet I--I--am overlooked, while these who have done nothing in comparison, are petted and thanked.'
What happens: overlook, do, pet, thank · To what, where: I, nothing, comparison
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 7 overlooked | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 I | nsubj |
| 3 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 I | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 overlooked | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 I | punct |
| 6 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 overlooked | aux:pass |
| 7 | overlooked | overlook | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 these | punct |
| 9 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 10 these | mark |
| 10 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 overlooked | obl |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 done | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 done | aux |
| 13 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 these | acl:relcl |
| 14 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 13 done | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 comparison | case |
| 16 | comparison | comparison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 nothing | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 petted | punct |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 petted | aux:pass |
| 19 | petted | pet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 overlooked | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 thanked | cc |
| 21 | thanked | thank | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 petted | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 overlooked | punct |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 overlooked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overlook | present · passive | I | these obl | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do | present · perfect | nothing | comparison | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | pet | present · passive | vn marry-36.2 «NP V» | ||||||
| 4 | thank speech: thank | participle | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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