The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 22

My mind is all a heap of confusion.’

Who acts: mind, My · What happens: be, mind · To what, where: heap

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mind, My), 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mind	nmod:poss
2	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heap	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 heap	cop
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 heap	det:predet
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 heap	det
6	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 confusion	case
8	confusion	confusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heap	nmod
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 heap	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 heap	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	My mind	all heap				of confusion	tree rules
2	mind		My						nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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