The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 21
But the great spirit who rules over the woods, and the sea, and the sky, did not want me to become proud of my royal power and my long life.
Who acts: great spirit, sky, me · What happens: rule, not want, become · To what, where: woods, me
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great spirit, sky, me), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 spirit | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 spirit | det |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 spirit | amod |
| 4 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 rules | nsubj |
| 6 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 spirit | conj |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 woods | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 woods | det |
| 9 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 rules | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sea | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 sea | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sea | det |
| 13 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rules | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 want | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 want | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sky | det |
| 17 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 want | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sky | punct |
| 19 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 want | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 want | advmod |
| 21 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 sea | acl:relcl |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 want | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 become | mark |
| 24 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 want | xcomp |
| 25 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 become | xcomp |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 power | case |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 power | nmod:poss |
| 28 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 power | amod |
| 29 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 proud | obl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 life | cc |
| 31 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 life | nmod:poss |
| 32 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 life | amod |
| 33 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 power | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spirit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rule | the great spirit and rules and the sea | the woods | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not want | past · do-support | the sky | me | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | become not said to happen | to-infinitive | me not said here | proud property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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