The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 35
But as I happen to be feeling in a cheerful mood to-night I will let you have your life.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: happen, feel, let, have · To what, where: you, life
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Headless Dwarfs. 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 let | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 happen | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 happen | nsubj |
| 4 | happen | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 let | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 feeling | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 feeling | aux |
| 7 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 happen | advcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 mood | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 mood | det |
| 10 | cheerful | cheerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 mood | amod |
| 11 | mood | mood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 feeling | obl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 night | case |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 to | punct |
| 14 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 feeling | obl |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 let | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 let | aux |
| 17 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 let | obj |
| 19 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 let | xcomp |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 life | nmod:poss |
| 21 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 have | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present | I | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | feel | to-infinitive · progressive | I not said here | night | in a cheerful mood | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in mood=Attribute | |||
| 3 | let | future | I | you | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have | infinitive | you not said here | your life | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Patient |
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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