The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 126
It is true that I am getting old and may want someone to take care of me some day.’
Who acts: penny, I, someone · What happens: be, get, want, take · To what, where: someone, care
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (penny, I, someone), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 getting | mark |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 getting | nsubj |
| 6 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 getting | aux |
| 7 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 true | advcl |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 getting | xcomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 want | cc |
| 10 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 want | aux |
| 11 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 getting | conj |
| 12 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 11 want | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 take | mark |
| 14 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 want | xcomp |
| 15 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 take | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 me | case |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 take | obl |
| 18 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 day | det |
| 19 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 take | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | penny | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | present · progressive | I | old property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | want | may | I not said here | someone | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | someone not said here | care | day | of me | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of i=Initial_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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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