The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 21

‘Am I mad, or is the thing bewitched?’

Who acts: I · What happens: be, bewitch · To what, where: thing

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16. 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	_	4 mad	punct
2	Am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mad	cop
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 mad	nsubj
4	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 thing	punct
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 thing	cc
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 thing	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 thing	det
9	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mad	parataxis
10	bewitched	bewitch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 thing	acl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 mad	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 mad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	I		mad property	tree rules
2	is a	present		the thing		tree rules
3	bewitch	participle		the thing not said here		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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