The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 90
‘I’ll take nothing,’ says she, ‘but leave to spend one night outside the prince’s chamber.’
Who acts: I, daughter · What happens: take, say, leave, spend · To what, where: nothing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, daughter), 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 take | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 take | nsubj |
| 3 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 take | aux |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 says | ccomp |
| 5 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 take | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
| 8 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 leave | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 leave | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 leave | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 leave | cc |
| 13 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 says | ccomp |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 spend | mark |
| 15 | spend | spend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 leave | xcomp |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 night | nummod |
| 17 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 spend | obl |
| 18 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 22 chamber | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 prince | det |
| 20 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 chamber | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 prince | case |
| 22 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 spend | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 says | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | future | I | nothing | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | leave | infinitive | daughter | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | spend | to-infinitive | daughter not said here | night | outside the prince's chamber | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: 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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