The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 151

‘None of the girls of my own country are beautiful in my eyes, and that is why I came to look for a wife in the land of the sun. Was I wrong, my lovely Zizi?’

Who acts: None, that, I · What happens: be, come, look · To what, where: eyes

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 (None, that, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 beautiful	punct
2	None	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	11 beautiful	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 girls	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 girls	det
5	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 None	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 country	case
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 country	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 country	amod
9	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 girls	nmod
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 beautiful	cop
11	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 wrong	advcl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 eyes	case
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 eyes	nmod:poss
14	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 beautiful	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 why	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 why	cc
17	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 why	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 why	cop
19	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	21 came	advmod
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 came	nsubj
21	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 beautiful	advcl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 look	mark
23	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 came	xcomp
24	for	for	ADP	_	26 wife	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 wife	det
26	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 look	obl
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 land	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 land	det
29	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 wife	nmod
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 sun.	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 sun.	det
32	sun.	sun.	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 land	nmod
33	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 wrong	cop
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 wrong	nsubj
35	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 Zizi	punct
37	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 Zizi	nmod:poss
38	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 Zizi	amod
39	Zizi	Zizi	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 wrong	obl
40	?	?	PUNCT	_	35 wrong	punct
41	’	'	PUNCT	_	35 wrong	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	None	my eyes	beautiful property	tree rules
2	is	present	that		why property	tree rules
3	come	past	I			tree rules
4	look	to-infinitive	I not said here		for a wife in the land of the sun.	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for wife=Theme
5	is	past	I		my lovely Zizi obl; wrong property	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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