English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 20

You seem old enough to work; I am afraid you are inclined to be lazy.”

Who acts: You, I · What happens: seem, work, be, incline · To what, where: you

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Whittington and His Cat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 seem	nsubj
2	seem	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 seem	xcomp
4	enough	enough	ADV	_	3 old	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 work	mark
6	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 old	advcl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 afraid	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 afraid	nsubj
9	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 afraid	cop
10	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 seem	conj
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 inclined	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 inclined	aux:pass
13	inclined	incline	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 afraid	ccomp
14	to	to	PART	_	16 lazy	mark
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 lazy	cop
16	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 inclined	xcomp
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seem	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 seem	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	seem	present	You		old property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	work	to-infinitive	You not said here			vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	I		afraid property	tree rules
4	incline	present · passive		you		vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: subject=Patient
5	is	to-infinitive			lazy property	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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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