The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 3, sentence 14

It must be for my pride that I am condemned to be a Grasshopper, and sing day and night in the grass by this brook, when I feel far more inclined to cry.’

Who acts: better, I · What happens: be, condemn, sing, feel, cry · To what, where: pride, Grasshopper, grass

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, 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 (better, 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 pride	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 pride	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 pride	cop
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 pride	case
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 pride	nmod:poss
6	pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 condemned	nsubj:pass
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 condemned	nsubj
9	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 condemned	aux:pass
10	condemned	condemn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 pride	acl:relcl
11	to	to	PART	_	14 Grasshopper	mark
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 Grasshopper	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 Grasshopper	det
14	Grasshopper	Grasshopper	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 condemned	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sing	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 sing	cc
17	sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 pride	parataxis
18	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sing	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 night	cc
20	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 day	conj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 grass	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 grass	det
23	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sing	obl
24	by	by	ADP	_	26 brook	case
25	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 brook	det
26	brook	brook	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sing	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 feel	punct
28	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	30 feel	advmod
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 feel	nsubj
30	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 sing	conj
31	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	32 more	advmod
32	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	33 inclined	advmod
33	inclined	inclined	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 feel	xcomp
34	to	to	PART	_	35 cry	mark
35	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 inclined	xcomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 pride	punct
37	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 pride	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	must	better = good				for my pride	tree rules
2	condemn	present · passive		my pride				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	is a	to-infinitive		a Grasshopper				tree rules
4	sing speech: express	present			the grass	day	by this brook	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in grass=Location
5	feel	present	I				inclined property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
6	cry speech: express	to-infinitive	I not said here					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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