The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 2

‘You have all shown me much kindness, but now I am well again, and want to go home and hear some news of my husband, and if he still mourns for me!’

Who acts: You, I, husband · What happens: have, show, be, want, go, hear · To what, where: shown much kindness, me, news

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, I, husband), 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 have	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 kindness	det
5	shown	show	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 kindness	amod
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 shown	obj
7	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 kindness	amod
8	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 again	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 again	cc
11	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 again	advmod
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 again	nsubj
13	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 again	cop
14	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 again	advmod
15	again	again	ADV	_	3 have	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 want	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 want	cc
18	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 have	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 go	mark
20	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 want	xcomp
21	home	home	ADV	_	20 go	advmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 hear	cc
23	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 go	conj
24	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	25 news	det
25	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hear	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 husband	case
27	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 husband	nmod:poss
28	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 news	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 mourns	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 mourns	cc
31	if	if	SCONJ	_	34 mourns	mark
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 mourns	nsubj
33	still	still	ADV	_	34 mourns	advmod
34	mourns	mourn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 have	conj
35	for	for	ADP	_	36 me	case
36	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 mourns	obl
37	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	You	all shown much kindness				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kindness=Patient
2	show	participle			me			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
3	is	present	I			now	again, well property	tree rules
4	want	present	You not said here					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	You not said here				home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	hear	present	You not said here	some news of my husband				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer news=Stimulus
7	mourn a condition, not said to happen	present	husband			still	for me	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for i=Attribute

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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