The Violet Fairy Book, Mogarzea and His Son, sentence 17
‘I wonder you are not tired of living by yourself in this lonely place.’
Who acts: I, you · What happens: wonder, not be, live · To what, where: lonely place · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mogarzea and His Son. 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 wonder | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 wonder | nsubj |
| 3 | wonder | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 tired | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 tired | cop |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 tired | advmod |
| 7 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wonder | ccomp |
| 8 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 9 living | mark |
| 9 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 tired | advcl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 yourself | case |
| 11 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 living | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 place | case |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 place | det |
| 14 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 place | amod |
| 15 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 living | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wonder | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 wonder | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask | present | I | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | not is | present | you | tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | live | gerund | you not said here | this lonely place | by yourself | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=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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