The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 40
‘I want to get work as a day labourer,’ he answered.
Who acts: I, Martin · What happens: want, get, answer · To what, where: work
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Martin), 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 | _ | 3 want | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 want | nsubj |
| 3 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 answered | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 get | mark |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 want | xcomp |
| 6 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 get | obj |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 labourer | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 labourer | det |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 labourer | compound |
| 10 | labourer | labourer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 get | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 want | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 want | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 answered | nsubj |
| 14 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | get not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | work | as a day labourer | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer work=Stimulus as labourer=Attribute | |||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | Martin | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=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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