The Green Fairy Book, The Half-chick, sentence 50
‘I can’t waste all my morning stopping here to help you.
Who acts: I · What happens: not waste, stop, help · To what, where: you
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 | _ | 5 waste | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 waste | nsubj |
| 3 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 waste | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 waste | advmod |
| 5 | waste | waste | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 morning | det:predet |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 morning | nmod:poss |
| 8 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stopping | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | stopping | stop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 waste | advcl |
| 10 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 stopping | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 help | mark |
| 12 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 stopping | advcl |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 help | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 waste | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not waste | can | I | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | stop | gerund | I not said here | here | morning | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | help | to-infinitive | I not said here | you | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary |
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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