The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 47
‘You don’t seem to have much curiosity, seeing you never ask my name.’
Who acts: You, my · What happens: not seem, have, see, not ask, name · To what, where: much curiosity, name · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Ring (30). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, my), 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 seem | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 seem | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 seem | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 seem | advmod |
| 5 | seem | seem | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 have | mark |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 seem | xcomp |
| 8 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 curiosity | amod |
| 9 | curiosity | curiosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 have | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 seeing | punct |
| 11 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 have | advcl |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 ask | nsubj |
| 13 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 ask | advmod |
| 14 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 seeing | ccomp |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 name | nmod:poss |
| 16 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ask | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 seem | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 seem | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not seem | present · do-support | You | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | have | to-infinitive | You not said here | much curiosity | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curiosity=Patient | ||||
| 3 | see | gerund | You not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | not ask speech: ask | present | you | my name | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | name | my | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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