The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 61
‘I fancied I had come to an end of my troubles, and now they are worse than ever.
Who acts: I, troubles, my · What happens: fancy, come, be, trouble · To what, where: end
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, troubles, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 fancied | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 fancied | nsubj |
| 3 | fancied | fancy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 come | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 come | aux |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 fancied | parataxis |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 end | case |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 end | det |
| 9 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 come | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 troubles | case |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 troubles | nmod:poss |
| 12 | troubles | trouble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 end | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 worse | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 worse | cc |
| 15 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 worse | advmod |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 worse | nsubj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 worse | cop |
| 18 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 fancied | conj |
| 19 | than | than | ADP | _ | 20 ever | case |
| 20 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 18 worse | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fancied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fancy | past | I | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | come | past · perfect | I | to a end of my troubles | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | is | present | troubles = trouble | now | bad property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | trouble | my | nom trouble «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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