The Red Fairy Book, The Marvellous Musician, sentence 22
‘Time hangs very heavily on my hands when I’m all alone in the wood; I must try and find a companion.’
Who acts: Time, I · What happens: hang, be, try, find · To what, where: hands, wood, companion
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Marvellous Musician. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Time, 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 | _ | 3 hangs | punct |
| 2 | Time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hangs | nsubj |
| 3 | hangs | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 heavily | advmod |
| 5 | heavily | heavily | ADV | _ | 3 hangs | advmod |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 hands | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 hands | nmod:poss |
| 8 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hangs | obl |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 ’m | advmod |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 ’m | nsubj |
| 11 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 hangs | advcl |
| 12 | all | all | ADV | _ | 13 alone | advmod |
| 13 | alone | alone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 ’m | advcl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 wood | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 wood | det |
| 16 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ’m | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 try | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 try | nsubj |
| 19 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 try | aux |
| 20 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 hangs | parataxis |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 find | cc |
| 22 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 try | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 companion | det |
| 24 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 find | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hangs | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 hangs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | present | Time | my hands | heavily property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on hand=Location | |||
| 2 | be | present | I | the wood | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Location | ||||
| 3 | try | must | I | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | find | infinitive | I not said here | a companion | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent companion=Topic |
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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