The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 61
‘I feel nothing but joy now that my beloved father rests over me.’
Who acts: I, beloved father · What happens: feel, rest · To what, where: nothing
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, beloved father), 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 | _ | 3 feel | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 feel | nsubj |
| 3 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 feel | obj |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 joy | cc |
| 6 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nothing | conj |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 feel | advmod |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 rests | mark |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 father | nmod:poss |
| 10 | beloved | beloved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 father | amod |
| 11 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rests | nsubj |
| 12 | rests | rest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 feel | advcl |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 14 me | case |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 rests | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 feel | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 feel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present | I | nothing | now | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme | |||
| 2 | rest | present | my beloved father | over me | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent over i=Location |
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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