The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 9

The ring and the casket were the only things they did not want her to have.

Who acts: ring, things, snake · What happens: be, not want, have · To what, where: only things, snake

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 (ring, things, snake), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ring	det
2	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 things	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 casket	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 casket	det
5	casket	casket	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ring	conj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 things	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 things	det
8	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 things	amod
9	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 want	nsubj
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 want	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 want	advmod
13	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 things	acl:relcl
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 want	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 have	mark
16	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 want	xcomp
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 things	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past	the ring and the casket	the only things	tree rules
2	not want	past · do-support	things = thing	snake	tree rules
3	have not said to happen	to-infinitive	snake not said here		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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