The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 83
I really can't be expected to do two things at once.'
Who acts: I · What happens: not expect, do · To what, where: I, two things
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. 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 | 6 expected | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | really | really | ADV | _ | 6 expected | advmod |
| 3 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 expected | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 expected | advmod |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 expected | aux:pass |
| 6 | expected | expect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 do | mark |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 expected | xcomp |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 things | nummod |
| 10 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 do | obj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 once | case |
| 12 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 8 do | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 expected | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 expected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not expect | can · passive | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | two things | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |
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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