The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 72
I see nothing to eat, and though you may be very charming, the sight of you does not prevent me from famishing.’
Who acts: I, you · What happens: see, eat, be, not prevent, famish, sight · To what, where: nothing, me, you
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you), 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 | 2 see | nsubj |
| 2 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 see | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 eat | mark |
| 5 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 nothing | acl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 prevent | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 prevent | cc |
| 8 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 13 charming | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 charming | nsubj |
| 10 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 charming | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 charming | cop |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 charming | advmod |
| 13 | charming | charming | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 prevent | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sight | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sight | det |
| 16 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 charming | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 you | case |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 sight | nmod |
| 19 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 prevent | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 prevent | advmod |
| 21 | prevent | prevent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 see | conj |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 prevent | obj |
| 23 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 24 famishing | mark |
| 24 | famishing | famish | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 prevent | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 see | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | I | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | eat | to-infinitive | I not said here | nothing not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | may | you | charming property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not prevent | present · do-support | I not said here | me | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer i=Theme | ||||
| 5 | famish | gerund | I not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | sight | you | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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