The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 46
Talking to Denis is the only pleasure I have, and if I am not to see him I may as well enter a convent.’
Who acts: Talking, I · What happens: talk, be, have, not see, enter · To what, where: Denis, only pleasure, convent
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Talking, 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 | Talking | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 pleasure | csubj |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 3 Denis | case |
| 3 | Denis | Denis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Talking | obl |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 pleasure | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 pleasure | det |
| 6 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 pleasure | amod |
| 7 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 have | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 pleasure | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 enter | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 enter | cc |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 see | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 see | nsubj |
| 14 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 see | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 see | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 see | mark |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 enter | advcl |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 see | obj |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 enter | nsubj |
| 20 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 enter | aux |
| 21 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 23 enter | cc |
| 22 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 as | fixed |
| 23 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 pleasure | parataxis |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 convent | det |
| 25 | convent | convent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 enter | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 pleasure | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 pleasure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | gerund | Denis | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to denis=Co-Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | Talking | the only pleasure | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | present | I | the only pleasure not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pleasure=Patient | ||||
| 4 | not see a condition, not said to happen | present | I | Denis | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | enter | may | I | a convent | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme convent=Destination |
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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