The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 78
So I have resolved to put myself out of my pain by means of the Golden Fountain.
Who acts: I, my · What happens: resolve, put, mean, pain · To what, where: myself, pain
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, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 resolved | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 resolved | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 resolved | aux |
| 4 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 means | nsubj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 put | mark |
| 6 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 resolved | xcomp |
| 7 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 put | obj |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 pain | case |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 out | fixed |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 pain | nmod:poss |
| 11 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | obl |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 put | obl |
| 13 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Fountain | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Fountain | det |
| 16 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Fountain | amod |
| 17 | Fountain | Fountain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 means | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | resolve | present · perfect | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | put | to-infinitive | I not said here | myself | my pain | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent myself=Theme out pain=Destination | |||
| 3 | mean | present | of the Golden Fountain | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | pain | my | nom pain «state 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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