The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 207
Why, I am yellow too, and if I could only think of a way——’
Who acts: I · What happens: be, think
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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 yellow | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 yellow | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 yellow | nsubj |
| 4 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 yellow | cop |
| 5 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 yellow | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 think | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 think | cc |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 think | mark |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 think | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 think | aux |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 think | advmod |
| 13 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 yellow | parataxis |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 way | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 way | det |
| 16 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 think | obl |
| 17 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 think | punct |
| 18 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 yellow | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 yellow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | yellow property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other a condition, not said to happen | could | I | of a way | vn focus-87.1-1 «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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