The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 11
‘You must get tired of staying in such a lonely place?’
Who acts: You · What happens: get, stay · To what, where: lonely place
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nettle Spinner. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 get | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 get | aux |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 get | xcomp |
| 6 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 7 staying | mark |
| 7 | staying | stay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 tired | advcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 place | case |
| 9 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 place | det:predet |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 place | det |
| 11 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 place | amod |
| 12 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 staying | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | must | You | tired property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | stay | gerund | You not said here | such lonely place | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location |
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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