The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 9
I am all alone, and am getting old, and a workman is costly.’
Who acts: I, workman · What happens: get, be
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, workman), 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 | 8 getting | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 getting | aux |
| 3 | all | all | ADV | _ | 4 alone | advmod |
| 4 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 2 am | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 getting | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 getting | cc |
| 7 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 getting | aux |
| 8 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 getting | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 costly | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 costly | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 workman | det |
| 13 | workman | workman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 costly | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 costly | cop |
| 15 | costly | costly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 getting | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 getting | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 getting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present · progressive | I | old property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is | present | a workman | costly property | tree rules |
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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