The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 86
“I do not want maize, I want the baby,” grumbled he “and I will have him.”
Who acts: I, baby · What happens: not want, want, grumble, have · To what, where: maize, baby, Motikatika · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, baby), 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 want | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 want | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 want | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 want | advmod |
| 5 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 grumbled | ccomp |
| 6 | maize | maize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 want | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 want | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 want | nsubj |
| 9 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 want | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 baby | det |
| 11 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 want | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 want | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 want | punct |
| 14 | grumbled | grumble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 have | nsubj |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 have | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 have | cc |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 have | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 have | aux |
| 20 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 grumbled | ccomp |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 have | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 grumbled | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 grumbled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not want in a quote | present · do-support | I | maize | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot maize=Theme | ||||
| 2 | want in a quote | present | I | the baby | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot baby=Theme | ||||
| 3 | grumble speech: other | past | vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | have in a quote | future | baby | Motikatika | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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