The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 74
No, I would bear trouble now, and have something better to look forward to.’
Who acts: I · What happens: bear, have, look · To what, where: trouble, something
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18. 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 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 bear | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 bear | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 bear | aux |
| 5 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bear | obj |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 bear | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 have | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 have | cc |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 bear | parataxis |
| 11 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 have | obj |
| 12 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 something | amod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 look | mark |
| 14 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 something | acl |
| 15 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 14 look | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 look | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 bear | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 bear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | would | I | trouble | now | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Patient | |||
| 2 | have | present | something | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient | |||||
| 3 | look | to-infinitive | something not said here | forward property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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