The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 117

When I wish to visit him I always pass this way, and as even I cannot go through the enchanted wood without losing myself, I call the colt to guide me.’

Who acts: I · What happens: wish, visit, pass, not go, enchant, lose · To what, where: man, way, enchanted wood, myself, colt, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 wish	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 wish	nsubj
3	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 pass	advcl
4	to	to	PART	_	5 visit	mark
5	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wish	xcomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 visit	obj
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 pass	nsubj
8	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 pass	advmod
9	pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 way	det
11	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pass	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 go	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 go	cc
14	as	as	ADP	_	15 even	case
15	even	even	ADV	_	19 go	obl
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 go	nsubj
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 go	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 go	advmod
19	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 pass	conj
20	through	through	ADP	_	23 wood	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 wood	det
22	enchanted	enchant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 wood	amod
23	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 go	obl
24	without	without	SCONJ	_	25 losing	mark
25	losing	lose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 go	advcl
26	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	25 losing	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 call	punct
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 call	nsubj
29	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 pass	parataxis
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 colt	det
31	colt	colt	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 call	obj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 guide	mark
33	guide	guide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 call	advcl
34	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 guide	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 pass	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 pass	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wish	present	I				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	visit not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	man			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
3	pass	present	I	this way		always property	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Trajectory
4	not go	can	I		the enchanted wood		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through wood=Initial_Location
5	enchant	participle					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
6	lose	gerund	I not said here	myself			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Eventuality
7	call	present	I	the colt			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent colt=Recipient
8	guide	to-infinitive	I not said here	me			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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