The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 84
This she did, not from love to Manus, but because she wished to destroy him.
Who acts: This, wife · What happens: do, wish, destroy · To what, where: love, Manus
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, wife), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 did | nsubj |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 love | punct |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 love | advmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 love | case |
| 7 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Manus | case |
| 9 | Manus | Manus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 love | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 wished | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 wished | cc |
| 12 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 14 wished | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 wished | nsubj |
| 14 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 destroy | mark |
| 16 | destroy | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 wished | xcomp |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 destroy | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | This | love to Manus | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | wish | past | wife | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | destroy not said to happen | to-infinitive | wife not said here | Manus | vn destroy-44 «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 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/15/84/