The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 6

‘Well, I am successful in my profession and a person of importance, but I care nothing for it all, as I have no children.’

Who acts: I · What happens: be, care, have · To what, where: nothing, children

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Halfman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	_	6 successful	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	6 successful	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 successful	nsubj
5	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 successful	cop
6	successful	successful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 profession	case
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 profession	nmod:poss
9	profession	profession	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 successful	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 person	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 person	det
12	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 profession	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 importance	case
14	importance	importance	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 person	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 care	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 care	cc
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 care	nsubj
18	care	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 successful	parataxis
19	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	18 care	obj
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 care	obl
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 it	det
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 have	punct
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 have	mark
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 have	nsubj
26	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 care	conj
27	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	28 children	det
28	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 have	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 successful	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 successful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	I		in my profession and a person of importance; successful property	tree rules
2	care	present	I	nothing	for importance	tree rules
3	have	present	I	no children		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=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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