The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 87
It is all that I can do to find clothes and bedding for myself, and wretched they are.’
Who acts: youth, I, clothes · What happens: be, do, find · To what, where: that, clothes
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, I, clothes), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 that | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 that | cop |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 that | det:predet |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 do | mark |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 do | nsubj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 do | aux |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 find | mark |
| 9 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 do | advcl |
| 10 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 9 find | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 bedding | cc |
| 12 | bedding | bedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 clothes | conj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 myself | case |
| 14 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 find | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 wretched | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 wretched | cc |
| 17 | wretched | wretched | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 do | parataxis |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 wretched | nsubj |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 wretched | cop |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 do | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | youth | that | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | can | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | find | to-infinitive | I not said here | clothes and bedding | for myself | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme for myself=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | is | present | clothes | wretched property | 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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