The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 62
‘I am quite content to have been able to be of some service to you.’
Who acts: I · What happens: be · To what, where: you
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), 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), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 content | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 content | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 content | cop |
| 4 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 5 content | advmod |
| 5 | content | content | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 able | mark |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 able | aux |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 able | cop |
| 9 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 content | csubj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 service | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 service | cop |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 service | case |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 service | det |
| 14 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 able | xcomp |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 you | case |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 service | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 content | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 content | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | content property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive · perfect | able property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | you | of some service | tree rules |
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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