The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 232
‘But it won’t do for you to live with me; I am not tidy enough to please you.
Who acts: sky, you, I · What happens: not do, live, not be, please · To what, where: you
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sky, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 do | cc |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 do | nsubj |
| 4 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 do | aux |
| 5 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 do | advmod |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 live | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 live | nsubj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 live | mark |
| 10 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 do | advcl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 me | case |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 live | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 tidy | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 tidy | nsubj |
| 15 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 tidy | cop |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 tidy | advmod |
| 17 | tidy | tidy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 do | conj |
| 18 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 17 tidy | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 please | mark |
| 20 | please | please | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 tidy | advcl |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 please | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | future | sky | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | live | to-infinitive | you | with me | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with i=Location | ||||
| 3 | not is | present | I | enough, tidy property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | please | to-infinitive | I not said here | you | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer |
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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