The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 18
‘Well, well, as everyone else is afraid, I suppose I must do it myself,’ observed Petru at length.
Who acts: everyone, I · What happens: be, suppose, do, observe · To what, where: question, Petru, length · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (everyone, 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 | _ | 10 afraid | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 10 afraid | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | well | well | INTJ | _ | 10 afraid | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 afraid | punct |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 afraid | mark |
| 7 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 10 afraid | nsubj |
| 8 | else | else | ADV | _ | 7 everyone | advmod |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 afraid | cop |
| 10 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 observed | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 suppose | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 suppose | nsubj |
| 13 | suppose | suppose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 afraid | ccomp |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 do | nsubj |
| 15 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 do | aux |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 suppose | ccomp |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 do | obj |
| 18 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 16 do | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 afraid | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 afraid | punct |
| 21 | observed | observe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | Petru | Petru | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 observed | obj |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 length | case |
| 24 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 observed | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 observed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | everyone | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | suppose | present | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | do | must | I | question | myself obl:unmarked | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | observe | past | Petru | length | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent petru=Topic |
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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