The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 88
‘Dear me,’ he thought to himself, ‘that’s rather tiring!
Who acts: me, that · What happens: think, be · To what, where: Simpleton, tiring · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (me, that), 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 me | punct |
| 2 | Dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 me | amod |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 me | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 me | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 thought | nsubj |
| 7 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 himself | case |
| 9 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 thought | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 tiring | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 tiring | punct |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 tiring | nsubj |
| 13 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 tiring | cop |
| 14 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 15 tiring | advmod |
| 15 | tiring | tiring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thought | ccomp |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 15 tiring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | me | Simpleton | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | that | tiring | 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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