The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 87
I hit everything I aim at.’
Who acts: I · What happens: hit, aim · To what, where: everything
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19. 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 hit | nsubj |
| 2 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 2 hit | obj |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 aim | nsubj |
| 5 | aim | aim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 everything | acl:relcl |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 aim | obl |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hit | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 hit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hit | past | I | everything | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme everything=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | aim | present | I | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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