The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 185
‘I see you don’t want me to stay, and I should be very sorry to make myself disagreeable.
Who acts: I, you, me · What happens: see, not want, stay, be, make · To what, where: me, myself · 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, you, me), 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 | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 want | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 want | aux |
| 6 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 want | advmod |
| 7 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 see | ccomp |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 want | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 stay | mark |
| 10 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 want | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sorry | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sorry | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 sorry | nsubj |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 sorry | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 sorry | cop |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 sorry | advmod |
| 17 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 see | parataxis |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 make | mark |
| 19 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 sorry | xcomp |
| 20 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 make | obj |
| 21 | disagreeable | disagreeable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 make | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | not want | present · do-support | you | me | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | stay not said to happen | to-infinitive | me not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | should | I | sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | make | to-infinitive | I not said here | myself | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset myself=Beneficiary disagreeable=Product |
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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