The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 77
Ah! granny dear, it is not enough to be able to see him, I must be able to amuse him and to keep him with me.
Who acts: voice, I · What happens: not be, be, see, amuse, keep · To what, where: maiden
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 (voice, 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 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 4 dear | discourse |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ah | punct |
| 3 | granny | granny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dear | compound |
| 4 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 enough | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 enough | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 enough | cop |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 enough | advmod |
| 9 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 dear | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 able | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 able | cop |
| 12 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 enough | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 see | mark |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 able | xcomp |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 see | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 able | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 able | nsubj |
| 18 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 able | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 able | cop |
| 20 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 dear | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 amuse | mark |
| 22 | amuse | amuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 able | xcomp |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 amuse | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 keep | cc |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 keep | mark |
| 26 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 amuse | conj |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 keep | obj |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 me | case |
| 29 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 keep | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | voice | enough property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | voice not said here | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | voice not said here | maiden | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is | must | I | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | amuse | to-infinitive | I not said here | maiden | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | keep | to-infinitive | I not said here | maiden | with me | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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