The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 114
‘Master,’ says he, ‘I’d wish to be dressed now according to my rank.’
Who acts: I · What happens: say, have, wish, dress, accord · To what, where: prince · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, 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 (I), 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 | _ | 5 says | punct |
| 2 | Master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 says | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Master | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
| 5 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 says | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ’d | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 ’d | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 ’d | nsubj |
| 10 | ’d | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 says | conj |
| 11 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 ’d | ccomp |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 dressed | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 dressed | aux:pass |
| 14 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 wish | acl |
| 15 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 dressed | advmod |
| 16 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 rank | case |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 according | fixed |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 rank | nmod:poss |
| 19 | rank | rank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dressed | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Topic | |||||
| 2 | have | past | I | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | wish | infinitive | I not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | dress | to-infinitive · passive | now | accord my rank | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V» | ||||
| 5 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: 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 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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