The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 94
This will anger him greatly, for he wishes to betroth me to the son of the king of the Green City, whom I like not at all.’
Who acts: prince, I · What happens: wish, betroth, not like · To what, where: me, son, all
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 (prince, 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 anger | det |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 anger | aux |
| 3 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 anger | obj |
| 5 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 3 anger | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 wishes | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 wishes | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 wishes | nsubj |
| 9 | wishes | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 anger | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 betroth | mark |
| 11 | betroth | betroth | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 wishes | xcomp |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 betroth | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 son | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 son | det |
| 15 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 betroth | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 king | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 king | det |
| 18 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 son | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 City | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 City | det |
| 21 | Green | Green | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 City | compound |
| 22 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 king | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 whom | punct |
| 24 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 king | conj |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 like | nsubj |
| 26 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 whom | acl:relcl |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 like | advmod |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 all | case |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 like | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 anger | punct |
| 31 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 anger | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | present | prince | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | betroth not said to happen | to-infinitive | prince not said here | me | the son of the king of the Green City | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Theme to son=Recipient | |||
| 3 | not like | present | I | all | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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