The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 58

‘I want nothing but to be busy.’

Who acts: I · What happens: want, be · To what, where: nothing

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	_	3 want	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 want	nsubj
3	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 want	obj
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 busy	cc
6	to	to	PART	_	8 busy	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 busy	cop
8	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 want	conj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 want	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	I	nothing					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot nothing=Theme
2	is	to-infinitive	I not said here					busy property	tree rules

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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