The Yellow Fairy Book, A Story About a Darning-needle, sentence 64
‘I really believe I must have been born a sunbeam, I am so fine!
Who acts: I · What happens: believe, bear, be · 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 believe | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 believe | nsubj |
| 3 | really | really | ADV | _ | 4 believe | advmod |
| 4 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 fine | parataxis |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 born | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 born | aux |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 born | aux |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 born | aux:pass |
| 9 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 believe | ccomp |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 sunbeam | det |
| 11 | sunbeam | sunbeam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 born | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 believe | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 fine | nsubj |
| 14 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 fine | cop |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 fine | advmod |
| 16 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 16 fine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | present | I | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | bear | must · perfect · passive | I | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary sunbeam=Patient | |||||
| 3 | is | present | I | fine property | 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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