The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 84
‘Ah, my lady, I am very poor, and must go to service to earn my bread.’
Who acts: lady · What happens: be, go, earn · To what, where: service, bread
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 (lady), 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 | _ | 10 poor | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 5 lady | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 lady | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 lady | nmod:poss |
| 5 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 poor | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 lady | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 poor | nsubj |
| 8 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 poor | cop |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 poor | advmod |
| 10 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 go | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 go | cc |
| 13 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 go | aux |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 poor | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 service | case |
| 16 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 go | obl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 earn | mark |
| 18 | earn | earn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 go | advcl |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 bread | nmod:poss |
| 20 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 earn | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 poor | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 poor | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | my lady | poor property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | must | my lady not said here | service | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to service=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | earn | to-infinitive | my lady not said here | my bread | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Theme |
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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