The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 117
I feel, for the first time in my life, how happy it would make me to be beloved.
Who acts: I, life · What happens: feel, make, belov · To what, where: me
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, life), 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 feel | nsubj |
| 2 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 time | punct |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 time | det |
| 6 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 time | amod |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 feel | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 life | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 life | nmod:poss |
| 10 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 time | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 happy | punct |
| 12 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 happy | advmod |
| 13 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 feel | parataxis |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 make | nsubj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 make | aux |
| 16 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 happy | parataxis |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 make | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 beloved | mark |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 beloved | aux:pass |
| 20 | beloved | belov | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 make | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 feel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present | I | time | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | make | would | life | me | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material i=Product | ||||
| 3 | belov | to-infinitive · passive | life not said here | 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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