The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 67
I am so hungry, and it will go badly with me in the future, for I see here not an apple or pear or fruit of any kind--nothing but vegetables everywhere.’
Who acts: I, little · What happens: be, go, see · To what, where: future, apple
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, little), 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 hungry | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hungry | cop |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 hungry | advmod |
| 4 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 go | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 go | cc |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 go | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 go | aux |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 hungry | conj |
| 10 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 go | advmod |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 me | case |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 go | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 future | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 future | det |
| 15 | future | future | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 go | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 see | punct |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 see | mark |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 see | nsubj |
| 19 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 go | parataxis |
| 20 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 see | advmod |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 apple | advmod |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 apple | det |
| 23 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 see | obl |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 pear | cc |
| 25 | pear | pear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 apple | conj |
| 26 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 27 fruit | cc |
| 27 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 apple | conj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 kind | case |
| 29 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 30 kind | det |
| 30 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 fruit | nmod |
| 31 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 32 nothing | punct |
| 32 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 23 apple | conj |
| 33 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 vegetables | cc |
| 34 | vegetables | vegetable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 nothing | conj |
| 35 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 34 vegetables | advmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hungry | punct |
| 37 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 hungry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | hungry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | future | little | the future | with me; badly property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with i=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | see | present | I | a apple or pear or fruit of any kind | here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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