The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 140

I am only a little backward, perhaps, in my growth.’

Who acts: I, my · What happens: be, grow

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, my), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 little	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 little	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 little	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 little	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	backward	backward	ADV	_	5 little	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 perhaps	punct
8	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	6 backward	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 growth	punct
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 growth	case
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 growth	nmod:poss
12	growth	growth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 little	conj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 little	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 little	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	I					backward, little property	tree rules
2	grow		my						nom growth «process intransitive»: poss=agent

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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