The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 60
Isn’t this solitary life in such a desert bad enough without your turning the castle into a hospital for the aged?
Who acts: your · What happens: not be, turn, age · To what, where: solitary life, desert, castle, hospital
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 (your), 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 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 life | cop |
| 2 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 life | advmod |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 life | det |
| 4 | solitary | solitary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 life | amod |
| 5 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 desert | case |
| 7 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 desert | det:predet |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 desert | det |
| 9 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 life | nmod |
| 10 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 desert | amod |
| 11 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 10 bad | advmod |
| 12 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 14 turning | mark |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 turning | nsubj |
| 14 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 bad | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 castle | det |
| 16 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 turning | obj |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 hospital | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 hospital | det |
| 19 | hospital | hospital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 turning | obl |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 aged | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 aged | det |
| 22 | aged | age | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 turning | advcl |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 life | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | this solitary life | such desert | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | turn | gerund | your | the castle | a hospital | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent castle=Theme into hospital=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | age | participle | your not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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