The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 18
I take this opportunity of recommending these fairy books--poor things, but my own--to parents and guardians who may never have heard of them.
Who acts: I, opportunity, parents · What happens: take, recommend, not hear · To what, where: opportunity, fairy books
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, opportunity, parents), 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 take | nsubj |
| 2 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 opportunity | det |
| 4 | opportunity | opportunity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 take | obj |
| 5 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 6 recommending | mark |
| 6 | recommending | recommend | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 opportunity | acl |
| 7 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 books | det |
| 8 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 books | compound |
| 9 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 recommending | obj |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 things | punct |
| 11 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 things | amod |
| 12 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 books | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 own | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 own | cc |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 own | nmod:poss |
| 16 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 take | parataxis |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 19 parents | punct |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 parents | case |
| 19 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 own | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 guardians | cc |
| 21 | guardians | guardian | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 parents | conj |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 heard | nsubj |
| 23 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 heard | aux |
| 24 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 26 heard | advmod |
| 25 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 heard | aux |
| 26 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 parents | parataxis |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 them | case |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 heard | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | I | this opportunity | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=Theme | ||||
| 2 | recommend | gerund | this opportunity not said here | this fairy books and poor things | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not hear | may · perfect | parents and guardians | of guardians = guardian | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of they=Stimulus |
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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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