The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 98
I am in this difficulty: I do not know the way to Waq of the Caucasus.”
Who acts: I · What happens: be, not know · To what, where: difficulty, way
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2. 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 | 5 difficulty | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 difficulty | cop |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 difficulty | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 difficulty | det |
| 5 | difficulty | difficulty | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 know | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 know | nsubj |
| 8 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 know | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 know | advmod |
| 10 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 difficulty | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 way | det |
| 12 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 know | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Waq | case |
| 14 | Waq | Waq | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 way | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Caucasus | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Caucasus | det |
| 17 | Caucasus | Caucasus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Waq | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 know | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 difficulty | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | this difficulty | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not know | present · do-support | I | the way | to Waq of the Caucasus | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus |
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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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