The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 54
‘True; it is not here that I wish to be,’ answered the king’s son.
Who acts: Bad, I · What happens: not be, wish, be, answer · To what, where: son
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bad, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 True | punct |
| 2 | True | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 answered | ccomp |
| 3 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 here | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 here | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 here | cop |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 here | advmod |
| 7 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 True | conj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 wish | mark |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 wish | nsubj |
| 10 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 here | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 be | mark |
| 12 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 wish | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 wish | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 True | punct |
| 15 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 king | det |
| 17 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 son | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 king | case |
| 19 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 answered | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | Bad | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wish | present | I | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | be not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | answer speech: assert | past | the king's son | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent son=Eventuality |
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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