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The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 31

‘I saw a girl yesterday in the forest whom I wish to marry, and, unknown to my attendants, I brought her back to my house in a litter.

Who acts: I · What happens: see, wish, marry, bring back · To what, where: girl, forest, litter

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), 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

punctnsubjdetobjobl:unmarkedcasedetoblobjnsubjacl:relclmarkxcomppunctccpunctconjcasenmod:possoblpunctnsubjconjobjadvmodcasenmod:possoblcasedetoblpunctroot‘PUNCTIPRONsawVERBaDETgirlNOUNyesterdayNOUNinADPtheDETforestNOUNwhomPRONIPRONwishVERBtoPARTmarryVERB,PUNCTandCCONJ,PUNCTunknownADJtoADPmyPRONattendantsNOUN,PUNCTIPRONbroughtVERBherPRONbackADVtoADPmyPRONhouseNOUNinADPaDETlitterNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1‘'PUNCT_3 sawpunct
2IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs3 sawnsubj
3sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art5 girldet
5girlgirlNOUNNumber=Sing3 sawobj
6yesterdayyesterdayNOUNNumber=Sing3 sawobl:unmarked
7ininADP_9 forestcase
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 forestdet
9forestforestNOUNNumber=Sing3 sawobl
10whomwhomPRONPronType=Rel12 wishobj
11IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs12 wishnsubj
12wishwishVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin9 forestacl:relcl
13totoPART_14 marrymark
14marrymarryVERBVerbForm=Inf12 wishxcomp
15,,PUNCT_18 unknownpunct
16andandCCONJ_18 unknowncc
17,,PUNCT_18 unknownpunct
18unknownunknownADJDegree=Pos3 sawconj
19totoADP_21 attendantscase
20mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs21 attendantsnmod:poss
21attendantsattendantNOUNNumber=Plur18 unknownobl
22,,PUNCT_24 broughtpunct
23IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs24 broughtnsubj
24broughtbringVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 sawconj
25hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs24 broughtobj
26backbackADV_24 broughtadvmod
27totoADP_29 housecase
28mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs29 housenmod:poss
29househouseNOUNNumber=Sing24 broughtobl
30ininADP_32 littercase
31aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art32 litterdet
32litterlitterNOUNNumber=Sing24 broughtobl
33..PUNCT_3 sawpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1seepastIa girlthe forestyesterdayvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer girl=Stimulus
2wishpresentIthe foresttree rules
3marry not said to happento-infinitiveI not said herevn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4bring backpastIgirla litterto my housevn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to house=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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