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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 girl | det |
| 5 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 6 | yesterday | yesterday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 forest | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 forest | det |
| 9 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obl |
| 10 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 wish | obj |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 wish | nsubj |
| 12 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 forest | acl:relcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 marry | mark |
| 14 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 wish | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 unknown | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 unknown | cc |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 unknown | punct |
| 18 | unknown | unknown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 saw | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 attendants | case |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 attendants | nmod:poss |
| 21 | attendants | attendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 unknown | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 brought | punct |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 brought | nsubj |
| 24 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | conj |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 brought | obj |
| 26 | back | back | ADV | _ | 24 brought | advmod |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 house | case |
| 28 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 house | nmod:poss |
| 29 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 brought | obl |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 litter | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 litter | det |
| 32 | litter | litter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 brought | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | I | a girl | the forest | yesterday | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer girl=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | wish | present | I | the forest | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | marry not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | bring back | past | I | girl | a litter | to my house | vn 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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