The Green Fairy Book, The Three Dogs, sentence 4

I don’t see why I shouldn’t be as lucky as many another who has set out on the same search, and it wasn’t for nothing that I was born on a Sunday.’

Who acts: I, search · What happens: not see, not be, set out, bear · To what, where: same search · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, search), 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 see	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
3	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 see	advmod
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	11 lucky	advmod
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 lucky	nsubj
7	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 lucky	aux
8	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 lucky	advmod
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 lucky	cop
10	as	as	ADV	_	11 lucky	advmod
11	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 see	ccomp
12	as	as	ADP	_	14 another	case
13	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 another	nsubj
14	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	11 lucky	obl
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 set	nsubj:pass
16	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 set	aux
17	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 another	acl:relcl
18	out	out	ADP	_	17 set	compound:prt
19	on	on	ADP	_	22 search	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 search	det
21	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 search	amod
22	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 set	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 nothing	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 nothing	cc
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 nothing	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 nothing	cop
27	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 nothing	advmod
28	for	for	ADP	_	29 nothing	case
29	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 see	obl
30	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 born	nsubj:pass
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 born	nsubj:pass
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 born	aux:pass
33	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 nothing	acl:relcl
34	on	on	ADP	_	36 Sunday	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 Sunday	det
36	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 born	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	present · do-support	I				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	not is	should	I			as another; lucky property	tree rules
3	set out	present · perfect · passive		the same search			tree rules
4	not is	past	search			for nothing	tree rules
5	bear	past · passive			sunday		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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