The Green Fairy Book, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, sentence 56

‘I am a poor child without father or mother.’

Who acts: I · What happens: be · To what, where: poor child

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature. 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 child	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 child	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 child	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 child	det
5	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 child	amod
6	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	without	without	ADP	_	8 father	case
8	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 child	nmod
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 mother	cc
10	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 father	conj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 child	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 child	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	I	a poor child				without father or mother	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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