The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, sentence 57
I am not ambitious, and having spent all my life in this tedious tower, anything—even a house in the country—will seem a delightful change.
Who acts: I · What happens: not be, spend, seem · To what, where: life, tedious tower, delightful change
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, 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 ambitious | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 ambitious | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 ambitious | advmod |
| 4 | ambitious | ambitious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 spent | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 spent | cc |
| 7 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 spent | aux |
| 8 | spent | spend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 ambitious | conj |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 life | det:predet |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 life | nmod:poss |
| 11 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spent | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 tower | case |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 tower | det |
| 14 | tedious | tedious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 tower | amod |
| 15 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spent | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 anything | punct |
| 17 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 15 tower | conj |
| 18 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 house | punct |
| 19 | even | even | ADV | _ | 21 house | advmod |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 house | det |
| 21 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 anything | appos |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 country | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 country | det |
| 24 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 house | nmod |
| 25 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 seem | punct |
| 26 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 seem | aux |
| 27 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 ambitious | parataxis |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 change | det |
| 29 | delightful | delightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 change | amod |
| 30 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 seem | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ambitious | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | I | ambitious property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | spend | gerund · perfect | I not said here | my life | this tedious tower | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Asset | |||
| 3 | seem | future | a delightful change | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme change=Attribute |
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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