The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 24
I am becoming a wolf, I am becoming a wolf!’
Who acts: I · What happens: become · To what, where: wolf
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 (I), 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 | 3 becoming | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 becoming | aux |
| 3 | becoming | become | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 wolf | det |
| 5 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 becoming | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 becoming | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 becoming | nsubj |
| 8 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 becoming | aux |
| 9 | becoming | become | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 becoming | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 wolf | det |
| 11 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 becoming | xcomp |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 becoming | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 becoming | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | present · progressive | I | a wolf | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | become | present · progressive | I | a wolf | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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