The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 71
Others may have riches, beauty and wit, but as for me I desire nothing but to be the poor peasant girl I always was, working hard for those she loves.’
Who acts: Others, I, girl · What happens: have, desire, be, work, love · To what, where: riches, nothing, poor peasant girl
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 (Others, I, girl), 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 | Others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | aux |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | riches | rich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 beauty | punct |
| 6 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 riches | appos |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 wit | cc |
| 8 | wit | wit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 beauty | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 desire | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 desire | cc |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 13 me | case |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 as | fixed |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 desire | obl |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 desire | nsubj |
| 15 | desire | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | conj |
| 16 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 15 desire | obj |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 girl | cc |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 girl | mark |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 girl | cop |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 girl | det |
| 21 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 girl | amod |
| 22 | peasant | peasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 girl | amod |
| 23 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 nothing | conj |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 was | nsubj |
| 25 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 26 was | advmod |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 girl | acl:relcl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 working | punct |
| 28 | working | work | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 desire | advcl |
| 29 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 28 working | advmod |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 those | case |
| 31 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 28 working | obl |
| 32 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 loves | nsubj |
| 33 | loves | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 those | acl:relcl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 35 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | may | Others | riches | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rich=Patient | ||||
| 2 | desire | present | I | nothing | as me | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot nothing=Theme | |||
| 3 | is a | to-infinitive | I not said here | the poor peasant girl | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | work | gerund | I not said here | for those; hard property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for that=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | love | present | girl | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
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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