The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 1, sentence 18

See where I put in this mark when I abandoned the hopeless undertaking which I had but just begun!’

Who acts: you, I · What happens: see, put, abandon, have, begin · To what, where: mark, hopeless undertaking

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, 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 (you, 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	See	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	4 put	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 put	nsubj
4	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 See	advcl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 mark	case
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 mark	det
7	mark	mark	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	obl
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 abandoned	advmod
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 abandoned	nsubj
10	abandoned	abandon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 put	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 undertaking	det
12	hopeless	hopeless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 undertaking	amod
13	undertaking	undertaking	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 abandoned	obj
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 had	obj
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 had	nsubj
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 undertaking	acl:relcl
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 begun	cc
18	just	just	ADV	_	19 begun	advmod
19	begun	begin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 had	conj
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 See	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	1 See	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	see	imperative	you not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	put	past	I		this mark	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in mark=Destination
3	abandon	past	I	the hopeless undertaking		vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme undertaking=Source
4	have	past	I	the hopeless undertaking		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient
5	begin	participle	I not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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