The Yellow Fairy Book, The Swineherd, sentence 36
Stay, it has just occurred to me that I want someone to look after the swine, for I have so very many of them.’
Who acts: you, I · What happens: stay, occur, want, look, have · To what, where: place, me, someone, many
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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 | Stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 occurred | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 occurred | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 occurred | aux |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 occurred | advmod |
| 6 | occurred | occur | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Stay | parataxis |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 me | case |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 occurred | obl |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 want | mark |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 want | nsubj |
| 11 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 occurred | advcl |
| 12 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 11 want | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 look | mark |
| 14 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 someone | acl |
| 15 | after | after | ADP | _ | 17 swine | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 swine | det |
| 17 | swine | swine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 look | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 have | punct |
| 19 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 have | mark |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 have | nsubj |
| 21 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 occurred | conj |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 many | advmod |
| 23 | very | very | ADV | _ | 24 many | advmod |
| 24 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 have | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 them | case |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 many | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Stay | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Stay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | occur | present · perfect · passive | place | me | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | want | present | I | someone | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot someone=Theme | ||||
| 4 | look | to-infinitive | I not said here | someone not said here | after the swine | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | have | present | I | many of ladies | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Patient |
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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