The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 59
I am so young and small, and I would so gladly live a little longer.
Who acts: I · What happens: be, live
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3. 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 | 4 young | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 young | cop |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 young | advmod |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 small | cc |
| 6 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 young | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 live | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 live | cc |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 live | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 live | aux |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 live | advmod |
| 12 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 13 live | advmod |
| 13 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 young | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 little | det |
| 15 | little | little | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 longer | advmod |
| 16 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 live | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 young | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | young property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | I not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | live | would | I | gladly, long property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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