The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 84
‘Because they wanted to make me a bishop, and I would not consent,’ answered Toueno.
Who acts: farmers, I · What happens: want, make, not consent, answer · To what, where: bishop, me, Toueno
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (farmers, 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 | _ | 4 wanted | punct |
| 2 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 4 wanted | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wanted | nsubj |
| 4 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 make | mark |
| 6 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wanted | xcomp |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 make | obj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 bishop | det |
| 9 | bishop | bishop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 make | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 consent | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 consent | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 consent | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 consent | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 consent | advmod |
| 15 | consent | consent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 make | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wanted | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 wanted | punct |
| 18 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wanted | conj |
| 19 | Toueno | Toueno | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 answered | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | farmers = farmer | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | make not said to happen | to-infinitive | farmers = farmer not said here | a bishop | me | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary bishop=Product | |||
| 3 | not consent | would | I | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | answer speech: assert | past | farmers = farmer not said here | Toueno | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent toueno=Eventuality |
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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