The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 67
‘How am I to distinguish this awful thing when I see it?’
Who acts: I · What happens: distinguish, see · To what, where: awful thing, thing
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4. 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 | _ | 6 distinguish | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 distinguish | advmod |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 distinguish | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 distinguish | nsubj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 distinguish | mark |
| 6 | distinguish | distinguish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 thing | det |
| 8 | awful | awful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 thing | amod |
| 9 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 distinguish | obj |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 see | advmod |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 see | nsubj |
| 12 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 distinguish | advcl |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 see | obj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 distinguish | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 distinguish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | distinguish | present | I | this awful thing | vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Attribute thing=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | present | I | thing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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