The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 140
I am really glad that I am not often as uncomfortable as I have been to-night.’
Who acts: I · What happens: be, not be
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. 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 glad | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 glad | cop |
| 3 | really | really | ADV | _ | 4 glad | advmod |
| 4 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 uncomfortable | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 uncomfortable | nsubj |
| 7 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 uncomfortable | cop |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 uncomfortable | advmod |
| 9 | often | often | ADV | _ | 11 uncomfortable | advmod |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 uncomfortable | advmod |
| 11 | uncomfortable | uncomfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 glad | advcl |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 night | case |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 night | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 night | aux |
| 15 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 night | cop |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 night | case |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 to | punct |
| 18 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 uncomfortable | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 glad | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 glad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not is | present | I | often, uncomfortable property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present · perfect | I | as night | 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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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