The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 84
It would take me quite a year, possibly my whole life, to find the water.’
Who acts: It · What happens: take, find · To what, where: me, water
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flying Ship(24). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 take | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 take | aux |
| 3 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 take | obj |
| 5 | quite | quite | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 year | det:predet |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 year | det |
| 7 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 take | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 life | punct |
| 9 | possibly | possibly | ADV | _ | 12 life | advmod |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 life | nmod:poss |
| 11 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 life | amod |
| 12 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 take | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 find | punct |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 find | mark |
| 15 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 take | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 water | det |
| 17 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 find | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | would | It | me | year | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination | |||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | the water | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Topic |
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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