The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 188
‘No; I don’t mean to be a beast of burden any longer.’
Who acts: I · What happens: not mean, be · To what, where: beast
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 (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 | _ | 7 mean | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 mean | discourse |
| 3 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 mean | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 mean | aux |
| 6 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 mean | advmod |
| 7 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 beast | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 beast | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 beast | det |
| 11 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mean | xcomp |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 burden | case |
| 13 | burden | burden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 beast | nmod |
| 14 | any | any | ADV | _ | 15 longer | advmod |
| 15 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 mean | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 mean | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mean | present · do-support | I | long property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | a beast | of burden | 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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