The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 66
‘My child, I had almost given up the hope of ever seeing you again.
Who acts: hope · What happens: give up, see · To what, where: child, you
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 (hope), 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 | _ | 8 given | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 child | nmod:poss |
| 3 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 given | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 child | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 given | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 given | aux |
| 7 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 8 given | advmod |
| 8 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 given | compound:prt |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hope | det |
| 11 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 given | obj |
| 12 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 14 seeing | mark |
| 13 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 14 seeing | advmod |
| 14 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 hope | acl |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 seeing | obj |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 14 seeing | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give up | past · perfect · passive | My child | almost property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | gerund | the hope not said here | you | ever; again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
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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