The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 78
I am a miserable wretch who has displeased you without being able to help himself.”
Who acts: I, miserable wretch · What happens: be, displease, help · To what, where: miserable wretch, you, Bellissima
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, miserable wretch), 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 | 5 wretch | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 wretch | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 wretch | det |
| 4 | miserable | miserable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 wretch | amod |
| 5 | wretch | wretch | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 displeased | nsubj |
| 7 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 displeased | aux |
| 8 | displeased | displease | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 wretch | acl:relcl |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 displeased | obj |
| 10 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 12 able | mark |
| 11 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 able | cop |
| 12 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 displeased | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 help | mark |
| 14 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 able | xcomp |
| 15 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 help | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wretch | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 wretch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | a miserable wretch | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | displease | present · perfect | a miserable wretch | you | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | is | gerund | a miserable wretch not said here | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | help | to-infinitive | a miserable wretch not said here | Bellissima | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Beneficiary |
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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