The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 15
I am very hungry myself, and, besides, I have left a friend behind me who is still weak from illness.'
Who acts: I, friend · What happens: be, leave · To what, where: friend, illness
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, friend), 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 hungry | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hungry | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 hungry | advmod |
| 4 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 4 hungry | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 left | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 left | cc |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 and | punct |
| 9 | besides | besides | INTJ | _ | 13 left | discourse |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 besides | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 left | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 left | aux |
| 13 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 hungry | parataxis |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 friend | det |
| 15 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 left | obj |
| 16 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 17 me | case |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 friend | nmod |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 weak | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 weak | cop |
| 20 | still | still | ADV | _ | 21 weak | advmod |
| 21 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 friend | acl:relcl |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 illness | case |
| 23 | illness | illness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 weak | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hungry | punct |
| 25 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 hungry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | myself obl:unmarked; hungry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | leave | present · perfect | I | a friend | behind me | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent friend=Theme behind i=Location | |||
| 3 | is | present | a friend | illness | still | weak property | tree rules |
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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