The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 53
'Little desire have I to keep you,' answered the old woman, 'for no one thing have you done as you ought.
Who acts: Little desire, you · What happens: keep, answer, have, do · To what, where: you, old woman
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Little desire, 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 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 keep | punct |
| 2 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 desire | amod |
| 3 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 keep | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 keep | aux |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 keep | nsubj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 keep | mark |
| 7 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 keep | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 answered | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 answered | punct |
| 11 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 keep | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 woman | det |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 woman | amod |
| 14 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 answered | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 keep | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 keep | punct |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 thing | case |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 thing | det |
| 19 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 thing | compound |
| 20 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 have | obl |
| 21 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 keep | advcl |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 have | nsubj |
| 23 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 have | xcomp |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 ought | mark |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 ought | nsubj |
| 26 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 done | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | Little desire | you | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the old woman | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent woman=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | have | present | you | for no one thing | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do | participle | you not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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