The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 63
I must try myself, and seek him as well as her.
Who acts: I · What happens: try, seek · To what, where: myself, man
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24. 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 | 3 try | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 try | aux |
| 3 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 try | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 seek | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 seek | cc |
| 7 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 try | conj |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 seek | obj |
| 9 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 7 seek | advmod |
| 10 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 as | fixed |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 her | case |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 seek | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 try | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | must | I | myself | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | seek | infinitive | I not said here | man | as eye | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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