The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 20
“I want to know why other people have all the luck, and only misfortunes happen to me!”
Who acts: voice, other people, misfortunes · What happens: want, know, have, happen · To what, where: luck, voice · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (voice, other people, misfortunes), 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 | _ | 3 want | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 want | nsubj |
| 3 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 know | mark |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 want | xcomp |
| 6 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 have | advmod |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 people | amod |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 have | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | ccomp |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 luck | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 luck | det |
| 12 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 have | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 happen | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 happen | cc |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 misfortunes | advmod |
| 16 | misfortunes | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 happen | nsubj |
| 17 | happen | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 want | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 me | case |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 happen | obl |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 want | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want in a quote | present | a voice = voice | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | know not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | a voice = voice not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | other people | all luck | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luck=Patient | ||||
| 4 | happen in a quote | present | misfortunes | a voice = voice | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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