The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 141
Do you wish to be made nobles, or to govern towns?
Who acts: you · What happens: wish, make, govern · To what, where: made nobles, towns
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wish | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 wish | nsubj |
| 3 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 made | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 made | aux:pass |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 nobles | amod |
| 7 | nobles | noble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 wish | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 govern | punct |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 govern | cc |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 govern | mark |
| 11 | govern | govern | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wish | conj |
| 12 | towns | town | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 govern | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | present · do-support | you | made nobles | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot noble=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive · passive | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» | ||||||
| 3 | govern | to-infinitive | you not said here | towns | vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent town=Theme |
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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