The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 3, sentence 31
I do very well as I am, and yet from one year’s end to another they talk of nothing but delivering me from some imaginary affliction.
Who acts: I, people · What happens: do, talk, deliver · To what, where: end, me, imaginary affliction
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, people), 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 | 2 do | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 well | advmod |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 do | advmod |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 am | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 am | nsubj |
| 7 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 well | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 talk | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 talk | cc |
| 10 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 15 end | advmod |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 end | case |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 year | nummod |
| 13 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 end | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 year | case |
| 15 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 talk | obl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 another | case |
| 17 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 end | nmod |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 talk | nsubj |
| 19 | talk | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 do | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 nothing | case |
| 21 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 19 talk | obl |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 delivering | cc |
| 23 | delivering | deliver | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 nothing | conj |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 delivering | obj |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 affliction | case |
| 26 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 28 affliction | det |
| 27 | imaginary | imaginary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 affliction | amod |
| 28 | affliction | affliction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 delivering | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | I | well property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | talk | present | people | from one year's end to another | of nothing | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | deliver | gerund | people not said here | me | some imaginary affliction | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent i=Theme from affliction=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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