The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 28
I do not write the stories out of my own head.
Who acts: I · What happens: not write · To what, where: stories, own head
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1. 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 | 4 write | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 write | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 write | advmod |
| 4 | write | write | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 stories | det |
| 6 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 write | obj |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 head | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 head | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 head | nmod:poss |
| 10 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 head | amod |
| 11 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 write | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 write | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not write | present · do-support | I | the stories | my own head | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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