The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 29

And I am so very, very tired of the taste of salt.’

Who acts: I · What happens: be, taste · To what, where: salt

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5. 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	8 tired	cc
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 tired	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 tired	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	8 tired	advmod
5	very	very	ADV	_	8 tired	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 very	punct
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 tired	advmod
8	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 taste	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 taste	det
11	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tired	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 salt	case
13	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 taste	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 tired	punct
15	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 tired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	I					of the taste of salt; tired property	tree rules
2	taste			salt					nom taste «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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