The Violet Fairy Book, The Lute Player, sentence 40
You have so many in your prison, and I should be glad of a companion on my journeys.
Who acts: You, I, my · What happens: have, be, journey · To what, where: many, prison, journeys
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lute Player. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 many | advmod |
| 4 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 have | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 prison | case |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 prison | nmod:poss |
| 7 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 many | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 glad | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 glad | cc |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 glad | nsubj |
| 11 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 glad | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 glad | cop |
| 13 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 have | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 companion | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 companion | det |
| 16 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 glad | obl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 journeys | case |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 journeys | nmod:poss |
| 19 | journeys | journey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 glad | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | You | many | your prison | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Patient | |||
| 2 | is | should | I | my journeys | of a companion; glad property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | journey | my | nom journey «act 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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