The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 53
I can never feel anything towards you but hate and contempt.’
Who acts: I · What happens: not feel · To what, where: anything
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), 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 feel | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 feel | aux |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 feel | advmod |
| 4 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 feel | obj |
| 6 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 anything | nmod |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 hate | cc |
| 9 | hate | hate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 anything | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 contempt | cc |
| 11 | contempt | contempt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 anything | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 feel | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 feel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not feel | can | I | anything | towards you | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme |
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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