The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 35

‘That will be a prize indeed, I should like to see the race.’

Who acts: That, I · What happens: be, like, see · To what, where: prize, race

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, 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	_	6 prize	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 prize	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 prize	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 prize	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 prize	det
6	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	6 prize	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 like	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 like	nsubj
10	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 like	aux
11	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 prize	parataxis
12	to	to	PART	_	13 see	mark
13	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 like	xcomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 race	det
15	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 see	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 prize	punct
17	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 prize	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	future	That	a prize	indeed property	tree rules
2	like	should	I			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	the race		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer race=Stimulus

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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