The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 11
Shall we not seek our own pleasures, and forget the little one?’
Who acts: we, our · What happens: not seek, forget, please · To what, where: own pleasures, little one
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), 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 (we, our), 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 | Shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 seek | aux |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 seek | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 seek | advmod |
| 4 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 pleasures | nmod:poss |
| 6 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 pleasures | amod |
| 7 | pleasures | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 seek | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 forget | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 forget | cc |
| 10 | forget | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 seek | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 one | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 one | amod |
| 13 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 forget | obj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 seek | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 seek | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not seek | shall | we | our own pleasures | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pleasure=Theme | ||||
| 2 | forget | present | we not said here | the little one | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | please | our | nom pleasure «feeling 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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