The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5, sentence 25

All I desire is to inspect the castle and then go.”

Who acts: I, All · What happens: desire, be, go

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, 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 (I, All), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 inspect	nsubj:outer
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 desire	nsubj
3	desire	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 All	acl:relcl
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 inspect	cop
5	to	to	PART	_	6 inspect	mark
6	inspect	inspect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 castle	det
8	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 inspect	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 go	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 go	advmod
11	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 inspect	conj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 inspect	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 inspect	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	desire	present	I			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	is	present	All		inspect property	tree rules
3	go	infinitive	All not said here	then		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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