The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 97
‘My son has a fancy to learn your trade.
Who acts: son, your · What happens: have, learn, trade · To what, where: fancy, trade
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 (son, your), 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 | _ | 4 has | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 son | nmod:poss |
| 3 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 fancy | det |
| 6 | fancy | fancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 learn | mark |
| 8 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 fancy | acl |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 trade | nmod:poss |
| 10 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 learn | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | My son | a fancy | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fancy=Patient | ||||
| 2 | learn | to-infinitive | My son not said here | your trade | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trade=Topic | ||||
| 3 | trade | your | nom trade «act transitive»: poss=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 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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