The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 4
‘I have lost myself,’ answered the king, ‘and am trying to get home.’
Who acts: I · What happens: lose, answer, try, get · To what, where: myself, king
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 1. 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 | _ | 4 lost | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 lost | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 lost | aux |
| 4 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 lost | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lost | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ‘ | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ‘ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 king | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 trying | cc |
| 14 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 trying | aux |
| 15 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 answered | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 get | mark |
| 17 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 trying | xcomp |
| 18 | home | home | ADV | _ | 17 get | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lost | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | present · perfect | I | myself | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the king and ‘ | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent king=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | try | present · progressive | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 4 | get not said to happen | to-infinitive | home property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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