The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 127

‘Ah! yes, the poor beast is so fond of me!

Who acts: poor beast · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor beast), 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	_	11 fond	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	11 fond	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	11 fond	discourse
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 yes	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 beast	det
7	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 beast	amod
8	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fond	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 fond	cop
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 fond	advmod
11	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 me	case
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 fond	obl
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 fond	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the poor beast					of me; fond 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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