The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 85
Like a madman I have killed the woman who is the prop and stay of my old age.
Who acts: woman · What happens: kill, be, stay · To what, where: I, prop
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, 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 (woman), 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 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 3 madman | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 madman | det |
| 3 | madman | madman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 killed | obl |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 killed | aux |
| 6 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 woman | det |
| 8 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 killed | obj |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 prop | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 prop | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 prop | det |
| 12 | prop | prop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 woman | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 stay | cc |
| 14 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 killed | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 age | case |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 age | nmod:poss |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 age | amod |
| 18 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stay | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | present · perfect · passive | I | like a madman | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer woman=Result | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the woman and the prop | the prop | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | stay | infinitive | of my old age | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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