The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 116
How can I explain to you the cause of my hesitation?
Who acts: I, my · What happens: explain, cause, hesitate · To what, where: cause, you, hesitation
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 explain | advmod |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 explain | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 explain | nsubj |
| 4 | explain | explain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 you | case |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 explain | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cause | det |
| 8 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 explain | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 hesitation | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 hesitation | nmod:poss |
| 11 | hesitation | hesitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cause | nmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 explain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | explain speech: assert | can | I | the cause of my hesitation | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent cause=Topic to you=Recipient | |||
| 2 | cause | my hesitation | nom cause «event transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 3 | hesitate | my | nom hesitation «cognition intransitive»: 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 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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