The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 84
And that is the place where I wish to fight the magician.’
Who acts: that, I · What happens: be, wish, fight · To what, where: place, magician
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 (that, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 place | cc |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 place | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 place | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 place | det |
| 5 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 wish | advmod |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 wish | nsubj |
| 8 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 place | acl:relcl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 fight | mark |
| 10 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 wish | xcomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 magician | det |
| 12 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fight | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 place | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 place | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | that | the place | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wish | present | I | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | fight not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | the magician | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magician=Co-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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