The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 41
I shall be very unhappy, of course, but I shall never alter my mind.
Who acts: I, my · What happens: be, not alter, mind · To what, where: mind
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, 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, my), 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 | 5 unhappy | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 unhappy | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 unhappy | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 unhappy | advmod |
| 5 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 of | punct |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 unhappy | obl |
| 8 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 of | fixed |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 alter | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 alter | cc |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 alter | nsubj |
| 12 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 alter | aux |
| 13 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 alter | advmod |
| 14 | alter | alter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 unhappy | conj |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 mind | nmod:poss |
| 16 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 alter | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 unhappy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | shall | I | unhappy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not alter | shall | I | my mind | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent mind=Patient | ||||
| 3 | mind | my | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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 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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