The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 1, sentence 20
I don’t allow myself to be put out by trifles like that with people I really am fond of.
Who acts: I · What happens: not allow, put out, be · To what, where: myself, people
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 (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 allow | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 allow | aux |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 allow | advmod |
| 4 | allow | allow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 allow | iobj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 put | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 put | aux:pass |
| 8 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 allow | xcomp |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 put | compound:prt |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 trifles | case |
| 11 | trifles | trifle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 put | obl |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 that | case |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 trifles | nmod |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 people | case |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 trifles | nmod |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 fond | nsubj |
| 17 | really | really | ADV | _ | 19 fond | advmod |
| 18 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 fond | cop |
| 19 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 people | acl:relcl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 fond | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 allow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not allow | present · do-support | I | myself | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer myself=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | put out not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | I not said here | by trifles like that with people | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: by trifle=Destination | ||||
| 3 | is | present | I | people not said here | fond property | tree rules |
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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