The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 40
I am only a man, but I am strong in my love, and I will seek the whole world through till I find her.’
Who acts: I, my · What happens: be, seek, find, love · To what, where: man, love, whole world, Princess
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), 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 man | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 man | cop |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 man | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 strong | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 strong | cc |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 strong | nsubj |
| 9 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 strong | cop |
| 10 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | acl:relcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 love | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 love | nmod:poss |
| 13 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 strong | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 seek | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 seek | cc |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 seek | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 seek | aux |
| 18 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 man | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 world | det |
| 20 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 world | amod |
| 21 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 seek | obj |
| 22 | through | through | SCONJ | _ | 25 find | mark |
| 23 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 25 find | mark |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 find | nsubj |
| 25 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 seek | advcl |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 find | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 man | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | a man | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | I | a man not said here | my love | strong property | tree rules | ||
| 3 | seek | future | I | the whole world | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent world=Theme | ||||
| 4 | find | present | I | Princess | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic | ||||
| 5 | love | my | nom love «feeling 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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