The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 2

‘I would fain banish thee for such words.’

Who acts: I · What happens: fain, banish · To what, where: thee

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31. 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 fain	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 fain	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fain	aux
4	fain	fain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	banish	banish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 fain	xcomp
6	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	5 banish	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 words	case
8	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 words	amod
9	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 banish	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fain	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 fain	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fain	would	I						tree rules
2	banish	infinitive	I not said here	thee				for such words	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=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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