The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 90
‘I’m sure I should never be tired of watching them.’
Who acts: I · What happens: be, not be, watch · To what, where: creatures
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34. 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’m | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 ’m | nsubj |
| 3 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ’m | xcomp |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 tired | nsubj |
| 6 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 tired | aux |
| 7 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 9 tired | advmod |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 tired | cop |
| 9 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sure | ccomp |
| 10 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 11 watching | mark |
| 11 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 tired | advcl |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 watching | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’m | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’m | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | I | sure property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not is | should | I | tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | watch | gerund | I not said here | creatures = creature | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/34/90/