The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 80
I dread the test, and yet this very dread convinces me of my misfortune.’
Who acts: I, dread · What happens: dread, convince · To what, where: test, me
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, dread), 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 | 2 dread | nsubj |
| 2 | dread | dread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 test | det |
| 4 | test | test | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dread | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 convinces | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 convinces | cc |
| 7 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 10 dread | advmod |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 dread | det |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 dread | advmod |
| 10 | dread | dread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 convinces | nsubj |
| 11 | convinces | convince | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 dread | conj |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 convinces | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 misfortune | case |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 misfortune | nmod:poss |
| 15 | misfortune | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 convinces | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 dread | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 dread | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dread | present | I | the test | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer test=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | convince | present | this dread | me | of my misfortune | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer |
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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