The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 16
‘I cannot come down with you, for I do not like anyone to see me,’ she ended with a sob.
Who acts: I, woman · What happens: not come down, not like, see, end · To what, where: anyone, me
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, woman), 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 | _ | 5 come | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 come | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 come | advmod |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | down | down | ADV | _ | 5 come | advmod |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 you | case |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 come | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 like | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 like | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 like | nsubj |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 like | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 like | advmod |
| 14 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 come | conj |
| 15 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 like | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 see | mark |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 like | xcomp |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 see | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 ended | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | SCONJ | _ | 22 ended | mark |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 ended | nsubj |
| 22 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 see | advcl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 sob | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 sob | det |
| 25 | sob | sob | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ended | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not come down | can | I | with you; down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not like | present · do-support | I | anyone | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | me | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | end | past | woman | with a sob | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector with sob=Subeventuality |
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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