The Yellow Fairy Book, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen, sentence 26
Can I be not fit for my office?
Who acts: I · What happens: not be
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen. 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 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 fit | aux |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 fit | nsubj |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 fit | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 fit | advmod |
| 5 | fit | fit | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 office | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 office | nmod:poss |
| 8 | office | office | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fit | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 fit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | can | I | for my office; fit 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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