The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 62
‘Well, you should want for nothing when you live in the Sea King’s dominion.’
Who acts: you · What happens: want, live · To what, where: dominion
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | _ | 6 want | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 want | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 want | nsubj |
| 5 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 want | aux |
| 6 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 nothing | case |
| 8 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 want | obl |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 live | advmod |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 live | nsubj |
| 11 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 want | advcl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 dominion | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 King | det |
| 14 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 King | compound |
| 15 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 dominion | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 King | case |
| 17 | dominion | dominion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 live | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 want | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | should | you | for nothing | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | live | present | you | the Sea King's dominion | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in dominion=Location |
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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