The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Hassebu, sentence 54
‘My name is Hassebu, but whence I come I know not, nor whither I go.’
Who acts: name, I, My · What happens: be, come, not know, go, name · To what, where: Hassebu
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Hassebu. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name, I, My), 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 | _ | 5 Hassebu | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 name | nmod:poss |
| 3 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Hassebu | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Hassebu | cop |
| 5 | Hassebu | Hassebu | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 know | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 know | cc |
| 8 | whence | whence | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 come | advmod |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 come | nsubj |
| 10 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 know | advcl |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 know | nsubj |
| 12 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Hassebu | acl:relcl |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 know | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 go | punct |
| 15 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 18 go | cc |
| 16 | whither | whither | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 go | advmod |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 go | nsubj |
| 18 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 know | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Hassebu | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 Hassebu | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | My name | Hassebu | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | present | I | whence property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | go | present | I | whither property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | name | My | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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