The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 20
I will travel and look a bit about me in the world.’
Who acts: I · What happens: travel, look · To what, where: bit, world
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1. 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 travel | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 travel | aux |
| 3 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 look | cc |
| 5 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 travel | conj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bit | det |
| 7 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 look | obj |
| 8 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 me | case |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 bit | nmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 world | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 world | det |
| 12 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 look | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 travel | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 travel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | future | I | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | look | infinitive | I not said here | a bit | the world | about me | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bit=Attribute |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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