The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 22
I don’t want to care for anyone.”
Who acts: I · What happens: not want, care
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1. 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 | 4 want | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 want | aux |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 want | advmod |
| 4 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 care | mark |
| 6 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 want | xcomp |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 anyone | case |
| 8 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 care | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 want | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not want | present · do-support | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | care not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | for anyone | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for anyone=Theme |
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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