The Green Fairy Book, The Half-chick, sentence 20

‘Mother, I am tired of this life in a dull farmyard, with nothing but a dreary maize field to look at.

Who acts: I · What happens: be, look · To what, where: dull farmyard

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Half-chick. 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	_	2 Mother	punct
2	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tired	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 tired	nsubj
5	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 tired	cop
6	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Mother	amod
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 life	case
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 life	det
9	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tired	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 farmyard	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 farmyard	det
12	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 farmyard	amod
13	farmyard	farmyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tired	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 nothing	punct
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 nothing	case
16	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 Mother	appos
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 field	cc
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 field	det
19	dreary	dreary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 field	amod
20	maize	maize	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 field	compound
21	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 nothing	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 look	mark
23	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 nothing	acl
24	at	at	ADP	_	23 look	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Mother	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	I			a dull farmyard		of this life; tired property	tree rules
2	look	to-infinitive							vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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