The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 38
‘I have lost my way on the heath, and do not know where I am to sleep this night.’
Who acts: I, you · What happens: lose, not know, be, sleep · To what, where: way, heath
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3. 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), 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 | _ | 4 lost | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 lost | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 lost | aux |
| 4 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 know | advcl |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 way | nmod:poss |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lost | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 heath | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 heath | det |
| 9 | heath | heath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lost | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 know | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 know | cc |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 know | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 know | advmod |
| 14 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 sleep | advmod |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 where | nsubj |
| 17 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 where | cop |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 sleep | mark |
| 19 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 know | advcl |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 night | det |
| 21 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sleep | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 know | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | present · perfect | I | my way | the heath | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | not know | imperative · do-support | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | present | I | where property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | sleep | to-infinitive | you not said here | night | vn snooze-40.4-1 «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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