The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 74

‘Because I was so crooked,’ answered the young man; ‘but it has quite cured me, and now my back is as straight as can be.’

Who acts: I, back · What happens: be, answer, cure · To what, where: young man, tree

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, back), 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	_	9 answered	punct
2	Because	because	SCONJ	_	6 crooked	mark
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 crooked	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 crooked	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 crooked	advmod
6	crooked	crooked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 answered	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 crooked	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 crooked	punct
9	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 man	det
11	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 man	amod
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 answered	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 cured	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 cured	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 cured	cc
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 cured	nsubj:pass
17	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 cured	aux
18	quite	quite	ADV	_	19 cured	advmod
19	cured	cure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 answered	conj
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 cured	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 straight	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 straight	cc
23	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 straight	advmod
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 back	nmod:poss
25	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 straight	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 straight	cop
27	as	as	ADV	_	28 straight	advmod
28	straight	straight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 answered	conj
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 be	mark
30	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 be	aux
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 straight	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 answered	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	I				crooked property	tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past			the young man			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent man=Eventuality
3	cure	present · perfect · passive		tree				tree rules
4	is	present	my back			now	straight 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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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