The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 86
My only comfort that, in this great forest, full of lions and serpents, my life will be a short one.'
Who acts: only comfort, My · What happens: be, comfort · To what, where: short one
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (only comfort, My), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 comfort | nmod:poss |
| 2 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 comfort | amod |
| 3 | comfort | comfort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 one | nsubj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 comfort | dep |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 forest | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 forest | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 forest | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 forest | amod |
| 9 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 comfort | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 full | punct |
| 11 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 forest | amod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 lions | case |
| 13 | lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 full | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 serpents | cc |
| 15 | serpents | serpent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 lions | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 life | punct |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 life | nmod:poss |
| 18 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 comfort | conj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 one | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 one | cop |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 one | det |
| 22 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 one | amod |
| 23 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 one | punct |
| 25 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | future | My only comfort and this great forest and my life | a short one | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | comfort | My | nom comfort «state transitive»: poss=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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