The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 95

You cannot tell the misery of being a beast all the day, and unable to speak to the man I love, to whose impatience I owe my cruel fate.

Who acts: You, misery, I, my · What happens: not tell, be, speak, love, owe, fate · To what, where: misery, man, cruel fate, impatience · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (You, misery, I, 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 tell	advmod
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 misery	det
6	misery	misery	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 beast	case
8	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 beast	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 beast	det
10	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 misery	nmod
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 day	det:predet
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 day	det
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obl:unmarked
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 unable	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 unable	cc
16	unable	unable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tell	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 speak	mark
18	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 unable	xcomp
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 man	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 man	det
21	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 speak	obl
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 love	nsubj
23	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 man	acl:relcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 owe	punct
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 impatience	case
26	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	27 impatience	nmod:poss
27	impatience	impatience	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 owe	obl
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 owe	nsubj
29	owe	owe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	advcl
30	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 fate	nmod:poss
31	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 fate	amod
32	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 owe	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	can	You	the misery	day		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent misery=Recipient
2	is	gerund				of a beast	tree rules
3	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	the misery not said here			to the man	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to man=Co-Agent
4	love	present	I	the man not said here			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
5	owe	present	I	my cruel fate		to impatience goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent fate=Theme to impatience=Goal
6	fate		my				nom fate «event 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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