Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 137
I'm under the enchantment of this whale, and cannot leave the beach or escape myself.
Who acts: I · What happens: be, not leave, escape · To what, where: enchantment, beach, myself
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fair, Brown, and Trembling. 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 | 5 enchantment | nsubj |
| 2 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 enchantment | cop |
| 3 | under | under | ADP | _ | 5 enchantment | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 enchantment | det |
| 5 | enchantment | enchantment | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 whale | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 whale | det |
| 8 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 enchantment | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 leave | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 leave | cc |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 leave | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 leave | advmod |
| 13 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 enchantment | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 beach | det |
| 15 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 leave | obj |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 escape | cc |
| 17 | escape | escape | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 leave | conj |
| 18 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 escape | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 enchantment | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | the enchantment | of this whale | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not leave | can | the beach | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beach=Theme | |||||
| 3 | escape | infinitive | myself | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme myself=Initial_Location |
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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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