The Yellow Fairy Book, A Story About a Darning-needle, sentence 27
‘I do hope I sha’n’t get lost!’
Who acts: I · What happens: hope, not lose · To what, where: I · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Story About a Darning-needle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | _ | 4 hope | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 hope | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hope | aux |
| 4 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 lost | nsubj |
| 6 | sha’ | sha' | PUNCT | _ | 5 I | punct |
| 7 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 lost | advmod |
| 8 | get | get | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 lost | aux:pass |
| 9 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 hope | ccomp |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 hope | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 hope | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hope | present · do-support | I | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not lose | infinitive · passive | I | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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