The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 64
He thought he should very much like to travel to some other part of the world.
Who acts: Lasse · What happens: think, like, travel · To what, where: other part · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lasse), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 like | nsubj |
| 4 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 like | aux |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 much | advmod |
| 6 | much | much | ADV | _ | 7 like | advmod |
| 7 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 thought | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 travel | mark |
| 9 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 like | xcomp |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 part | case |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 part | det |
| 12 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 part | amod |
| 13 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 travel | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 world | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 world | det |
| 16 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 part | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Lasse | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | like | should | Lasse | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | travel not said to happen | to-infinitive | Lasse not said here | some other part of the world | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to part=Destination |
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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