The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 27
I daresay it is not a lady at all, but a gang of conspirators who want to get possession of my throne.
Who acts: I, deal, gang · What happens: daresay, not be, want, get, possess · To what, where: lady, all, possession, throne
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 (I, deal, gang), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 daresay | nsubj |
| 2 | daresay | daresay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 lady | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 lady | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 lady | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 lady | det |
| 7 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 daresay | ccomp |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 all | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 lady | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 want | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 want | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 gang | det |
| 13 | gang | gang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 want | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 conspirators | case |
| 15 | conspirators | conspirator | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 gang | nmod |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 want | nsubj |
| 17 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 daresay | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 get | mark |
| 19 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 want | xcomp |
| 20 | possession | possession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 get | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 throne | case |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 throne | nmod:poss |
| 23 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 possession | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 daresay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | daresay | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not is a | present | deal | a lady | all | tree rules | |||
| 3 | want | present | a gang of conspirators | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | get not said to happen | to-infinitive | a gang of conspirators not said here | possession of my throne | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer possession=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | possess | my throne | nom possession «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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