The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 163
I cannot eat, I cannot drink, I cannot laugh; my heart felt no smile at anything, because of thinking of you.’
Who acts: I, heart · What happens: not eat, not drink, not laugh, feel, think · To what, where: smile, anything
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, heart), 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 | 4 eat | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 eat | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 eat | advmod |
| 4 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 drink | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 drink | nsubj |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 drink | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 drink | advmod |
| 9 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 eat | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 laugh | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 laugh | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 laugh | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 laugh | advmod |
| 14 | laugh | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 eat | conj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 felt | punct |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 heart | nmod:poss |
| 17 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 felt | nsubj |
| 18 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 eat | conj |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 smile | det |
| 20 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 felt | obj |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 anything | case |
| 22 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 18 felt | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 thinking | punct |
| 24 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 26 thinking | mark |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 because | fixed |
| 26 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 felt | advcl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 you | case |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 thinking | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 eat | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 eat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not eat | can | I | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not drink | can | I | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not laugh | can | I | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | feel | past | my heart | no smile | anything | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent smile=Theme at anything=Location | |||
| 5 | think speech: other | gerund | my heart not said here | of you | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: 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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