The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 30
I had thought to find a powerful robber, and instead of that I have seen the most miserable creature I can imagine.
Who acts: I · What happens: think, find, see, imagine · To what, where: powerful robber, miserable creature
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Mermaid. 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 | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | aux |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 find | mark |
| 5 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 thought | xcomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 robber | det |
| 7 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 robber | amod |
| 8 | robber | robber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 find | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 seen | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 seen | cc |
| 11 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 13 that | case |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 instead | fixed |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 seen | obl |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 seen | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 seen | aux |
| 16 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 thought | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 creature | det |
| 18 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 19 miserable | advmod |
| 19 | miserable | miserable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 creature | amod |
| 20 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 seen | obj |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 imagine | nsubj |
| 22 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 imagine | aux |
| 23 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 creature | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past · perfect | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | I not said here | a powerful robber | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent robber=Topic | ||||
| 3 | see | present · perfect | I | the miserable creature | instead that | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer creature=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | imagine | can | I | the miserable creature not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot creature=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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