The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 40
“I’m really glad to hear that, for I’ve been looking for a wife all over the world.
Who acts: Yellow Dwarf · What happens: be, hear, look · To what, where: that
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 (Yellow Dwarf), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’m | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 ’m | nsubj |
| 3 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 glad | advmod |
| 5 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ’m | advcl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 hear | mark |
| 7 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 glad | xcomp |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 hear | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 looking | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 looking | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 looking | nsubj |
| 12 | ’ve | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 looking | aux |
| 13 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 looking | aux |
| 14 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 ’m | advcl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 wife | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 wife | det |
| 17 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 looking | obl |
| 18 | all | all | ADV | _ | 21 world | advmod |
| 19 | over | over | ADP | _ | 21 world | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 world | det |
| 21 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wife | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’m | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | the Yellow Dwarf = dwarf | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hear in a quote | to-infinitive | the Yellow Dwarf = dwarf not said here | that | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | look in a quote | present · perfect · progressive | the Yellow Dwarf = dwarf | for a wife over the world | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for wife=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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