The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 181
I am ashamed that when I get home they should see I have brought back so little.
Who acts: I, Woe · What happens: be, get, see, bring back · To what, where: little · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Woe), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 ashamed | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 ashamed | cop |
| 3 | ashamed | ashamed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 see | mark |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 get | advmod |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 get | nsubj |
| 7 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 see | advcl |
| 8 | home | home | ADV | _ | 7 get | advmod |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 see | nsubj |
| 10 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 see | aux |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ashamed | advcl |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 brought | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 brought | aux |
| 14 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 see | ccomp |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 see | advmod |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 little | advmod |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 see | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ashamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | ashamed property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | present | I | home property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | see | should | Woe | little | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | bring back | present · perfect | I | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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