The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 38
Doubtless this lovely mortal is pining for company.
Who acts: Doubtless · What happens: pine
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Doubtless), 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 | Doubtless | Doubtless | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 pining | nsubj |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 mortal | det |
| 3 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 mortal | amod |
| 4 | mortal | mortal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pining | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 pining | aux |
| 6 | pining | pine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 company | case |
| 8 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pining | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 pining | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pine | present · progressive | Doubtless | for company | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for company=Theme |
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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