The Red Fairy Book, The Marvellous Musician, sentence 41
‘Time hangs heavily on my hands when I’m all alone in the wood; I must try and find another 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 | heavily | heavily | ADV | _ | 3 hangs | advmod |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 hands | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 hands | nmod:poss |
| 7 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hangs | obl |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 ’m | advmod |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 ’m | nsubj |
| 10 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 hangs | advcl |
| 11 | all | all | ADV | _ | 12 alone | advmod |
| 12 | alone | alone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 ’m | advcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 wood | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wood | det |
| 15 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ’m | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 try | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 try | nsubj |
| 18 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 try | aux |
| 19 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 hangs | parataxis |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 find | cc |
| 21 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 try | conj |
| 22 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 companion | det |
| 23 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 find | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hangs | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | 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 | another 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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