The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 96
I fear I am fated to be unhappy for many a long day still.”
Who acts: I · What happens: fear, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 2. 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 | 2 fear | nsubj |
| 2 | fear | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 fated | nsubj |
| 4 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fated | cop |
| 5 | fated | fated | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 fear | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 unhappy | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 unhappy | cop |
| 8 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fated | ccomp |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 day | case |
| 10 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 day | nsubj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 day | det |
| 12 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 day | amod |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 unhappy | obl |
| 14 | still | still | ADV | _ | 13 day | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fear | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 fear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fear | present | I | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | present | I | fated property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | I not said here | day | unhappy property | tree rules |
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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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