The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 9
I know the idea sounds wild, but I cannot get it out of my heart, and it leaves me no peace.’
Who acts: I, idea · What happens: know, sound, not get, leave · To what, where: idea, heart, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, idea), 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 know | nsubj |
| 2 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 idea | det |
| 4 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sounds | nsubj |
| 5 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 know | ccomp |
| 6 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sounds | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 get | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 get | cc |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 get | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 get | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 get | advmod |
| 12 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 sounds | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 get | obj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 heart | case |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 heart | case |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 heart | nmod:poss |
| 17 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 get | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 leaves | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 leaves | cc |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 leaves | nsubj |
| 21 | leaves | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 know | conj |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 leaves | obj |
| 23 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 peace | det |
| 24 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 leaves | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | sound | present | the idea | wild property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | not get | can | I | idea | my heart | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | leave | present | idea | me | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent i=Theme peace=Attribute |
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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