The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 91
The weather is going to change; I feel it already by the pain in my left hind-leg; the weather is certainly going to change.’
Who acts: weather, I · What happens: go, change, feel · To what, where: weather
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (weather, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 weather | det |
| 2 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 going | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 going | aux |
| 4 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 change | mark |
| 6 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 going | xcomp |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 feel | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 feel | nsubj |
| 9 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 going | parataxis |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 feel | obj |
| 11 | already | already | ADV | _ | 9 feel | advmod |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 pain | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 pain | det |
| 14 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 feel | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 leg | case |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 leg | nmod:poss |
| 17 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 leg | amod |
| 18 | hind | hind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 leg | amod |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 hind | punct |
| 20 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pain | nmod |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 going | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 weather | det |
| 23 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 going | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 going | aux |
| 25 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 26 going | advmod |
| 26 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 feel | advcl |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 change | mark |
| 28 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 going | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 going | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present · progressive | the weather | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | change | to-infinitive | the weather not said here | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | feel | present | I | weather | by the pain in my left hind leg | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme by pain=Location | |||
| 4 | go | present · progressive | the weather | certainly property | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | change | to-infinitive | the weather not said here | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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