The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 53

‘I am not really a man,’ replied his guide, ‘though I have the outward form of one, but one of those beings to whom is given the care of the world.

Who acts: I, man, world · What happens: not be, reply, have, give, care · To what, where: man, guide, outward form, one

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Underground Workers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, man, world), 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	_	7 man	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 man	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 man	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 man	advmod
5	really	really	ADV	_	7 man	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 man	det
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 replied	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 man	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 man	punct
10	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 guide	nmod:poss
12	guide	guide	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 replied	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 have	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 have	punct
15	though	though	SCONJ	_	17 have	mark
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 have	nsubj
17	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 replied	parataxis
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 form	det
19	outward	outward	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 form	amod
20	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 have	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 one	case
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 form	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 given	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 given	cc
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 given	nsubj:pass
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 beings	case
27	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	28 beings	det
28	beings	being	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 one	nmod
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 whom	case
30	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 given	nsubj:pass
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 given	aux:pass
32	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 replied	parataxis
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 care	det
34	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 given	obj
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 world	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 world	det
37	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 care	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not is a	present	I	a man	tree rules
2	reply speech: assert	past	a man	man's guide	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent guide=Topic
3	have	present	I	the outward form of one	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Patient
4	give	present · passive		one of that beings	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient care=Theme
5	care		the world		nom care «act intransitive»: of=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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