The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 37
‘I would take you myself, but I have promised to weave this cloth for the king.’
Who acts: I · What happens: take, promise, weave · To what, where: you, I, cloth
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 (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 take | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 take | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 take | aux |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 take | obj |
| 6 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 take | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 promised | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 promised | cc |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 promised | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 promised | aux |
| 11 | promised | promise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 take | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 weave | mark |
| 13 | weave | weave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 promised | xcomp |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 cloth | det |
| 15 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 weave | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 king | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 king | det |
| 18 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 weave | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | would | I | you | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Theme myself=Destination | ||||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | present · perfect · passive | I | vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | weave not said to happen | to-infinitive | this cloth | for the king | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent cloth=Product for king=Beneficiary |
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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