The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 71
We desire to trade—to sell, to buy, and to exchange.”
Who acts: We · What happens: desire, trade, sell, buy, exchange
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 (We), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 desire | nsubj |
| 2 | desire | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 trade | mark |
| 4 | trade | trade | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 desire | xcomp |
| 5 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 sell | punct |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 sell | mark |
| 7 | sell | sell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 desire | parataxis |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 buy | punct |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 buy | mark |
| 10 | buy | buy | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 sell | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 exchange | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 exchange | cc |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 exchange | mark |
| 14 | exchange | exchange | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 sell | parataxis |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 desire | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 desire | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | desire | present | We | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | trade not said to happen | to-infinitive | We not said here | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | sell | to-infinitive | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | buy | to-infinitive | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | exchange | to-infinitive | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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