The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 88
“I don’t care if there isn’t, and I am not going to the forest.
Who acts: Last · What happens: not care, not be, not go · To what, where: forest
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Last), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 care | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 care | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 care | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 care | advmod |
| 5 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 is | mark |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 is | expl |
| 8 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 care | advcl |
| 9 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 is | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 going | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 going | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 going | nsubj |
| 13 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 going | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 going | advmod |
| 15 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 care | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 forest | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 forest | det |
| 18 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 going | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 care | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not care in a quote | present · do-support | Last | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | not be a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | Last not said here | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not go in a quote | present · progressive | Last | the forest | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to forest=Initial_Location |
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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