The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 27
I desire nothing else”; and he turned as if to depart.
Who acts: I, shepherd · What happens: desire, turn, depart · To what, where: nothing
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, shepherd), 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 | 2 desire | nsubj |
| 2 | desire | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 desire | obj |
| 4 | else | else | ADV | _ | 3 nothing | advmod |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 nothing | punct |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 turned | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 turned | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 turned | nsubj |
| 9 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 desire | conj |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 depart | mark |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 depart | mark |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 depart | mark |
| 13 | depart | depart | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 turned | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 desire | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | desire | present | I | nothing | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot nothing=Theme | ||||
| 2 | turn in a quote | past | shepherd | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | depart a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | shepherd not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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