The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 14

All the girls here are pink and white, and I am tired to death of their eternal lilie and roses.

Who acts: girls, I, eternal lilie · What happens: be, die

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girls, I, eternal lilie), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 girls	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 girls	det
3	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 pink	nsubj
4	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 girls	advmod
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 pink	cop
6	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 white	cc
8	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pink	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 tired	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 tired	cc
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 tired	nsubj
12	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 tired	cop
13	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pink	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 death	case
15	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tired	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 lilie	case
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 lilie	nmod:poss
18	eternal	eternal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 lilie	amod
19	lilie	lilie	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 death	nmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 roses	cc
21	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 lilie	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 pink	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	all girls	pink property	tree rules
2	be		all girls not said here		tree rules
3	is	present	I	to death of girls's eternal lilie and roses; tired property	tree rules
4	die		girls's eternal lilie and roses		nom death «event intransitive»: of=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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