The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 10
‘I don’t want to be a great lady, I only want to be the wife of Denis,’ she replied, throwing off his hand and running to the ditch which divided the road from the cornfield, where he hoped to hide.
Who acts: I, Denis, ditch, Peasant · What happens: not want, be, want, reply, throw off, run · To what, where: great lady, wife, hand, road
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Denis, ditch, Peasant), 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 | _ | 5 want | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 want | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 want | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 want | advmod |
| 5 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 lady | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 lady | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 lady | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lady | amod |
| 10 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 want | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 want | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 want | nsubj |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 want | advmod |
| 14 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 want | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 wife | mark |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 wife | cop |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 wife | det |
| 18 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 want | xcomp |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Denis | case |
| 20 | Denis | Denis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 wife | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 replied | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | CCONJ | _ | 24 replied | cc |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 replied | nsubj |
| 24 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 want | parataxis |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 throwing | punct |
| 26 | throwing | throw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 replied | advcl |
| 27 | off | off | ADP | _ | 26 throwing | compound:prt |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 hand | nmod:poss |
| 29 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 throwing | obj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 running | cc |
| 31 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 throwing | conj |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 ditch | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 ditch | det |
| 34 | ditch | ditch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 running | obl |
| 35 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 divided | nsubj |
| 36 | divided | divide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 ditch | acl:relcl |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 road | det |
| 38 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 divided | obj |
| 39 | from | from | ADP | _ | 41 cornfield | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 cornfield | det |
| 41 | cornfield | cornfield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 divided | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 hoped | punct |
| 43 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 45 hoped | advmod |
| 44 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 hoped | nsubj |
| 45 | hoped | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 cornfield | acl |
| 46 | to | to | PART | _ | 47 hide | mark |
| 47 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 45 hoped | xcomp |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not want | present · do-support | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | is a not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | a great lady | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | want | present | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | is a not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | the wife | of Denis | tree rules | |||
| 5 | reply speech: assert | past | Denis | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | throw off | gerund | Denis not said here | Peasant's hand | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | ||||
| 7 | run | gerund | Denis not said here | to the ditch result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to ditch=Result | ||||
| 8 | divide | past | the ditch | the road | from the cornfield | vn separate-23.1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent road=Patient from cornfield=Co-Patient | |||
| 9 | hope | past | Peasant | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 10 | hide not said to happen | to-infinitive | Peasant not said here | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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