The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, sentence 89

I was so tired of trying to learn things.’

Who acts: I · What happens: be, try, learn · To what, where: things

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, 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), 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 tired	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tired	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 tired	advmod
4	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	SCONJ	_	6 trying	mark
6	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 tired	advcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 learn	mark
8	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 trying	xcomp
9	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 learn	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tired	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 tired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	I		tired property	tree rules
2	try	gerund	I not said here			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	learn not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	things		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic

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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