The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 36
‘Am I too destined to the same brilliant career?’ wondered the fir-tree excitedly.
Who acts: I · What happens: destine, wonder · To what, where: fir tree
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), 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 | _ | 5 destined | punct |
| 2 | Am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 destined | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 destined | nsubj |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 destined | advmod |
| 5 | destined | destine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 career | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 career | det |
| 8 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 career | amod |
| 9 | brilliant | brilliant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 career | amod |
| 10 | career | career | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 destined | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 destined | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 wondered | punct |
| 13 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 destined | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 tree | det |
| 15 | fir | fir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tree | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 fir | punct |
| 17 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wondered | obj |
| 18 | excitedly | excitedly | ADV | _ | 13 wondered | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 destined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | destine | present | I | to the same brilliant career | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wonder speech: ask | past | I not said here | the fir tree | excitedly 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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