The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 38
‘Anything more?’ asked Matte; but he did everything that his wife wished.
Who acts: Anything, Matte, wife · What happens: ask, do, wish · To what, where: Matte, everything
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Anything, Matte, wife), 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 | _ | 2 Anything | punct |
| 2 | Anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 Anything | amod |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 more | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Anything | punct |
| 6 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Matte | matte | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 asked | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 did | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 did | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 did | nsubj |
| 11 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 asked | conj |
| 12 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 11 did | obj |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 wished | obj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 wife | nmod:poss |
| 15 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wished | nsubj |
| 16 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 everything | acl:relcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Anything | Matte | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent matte=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | do | past | Matte | everything | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | wish | past | Matte's wife | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot that=Theme |
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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