The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 88
Like them, I shall seek till I get what I want--that is, money to buy a cow and a pig to fatten.
Who acts: I · What happens: seek, get, want, be, buy, fatten · To what, where: money, cow
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), 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 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 2 them | case |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 seek | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 them | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 seek | nsubj |
| 5 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 seek | aux |
| 6 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 9 get | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 get | nsubj |
| 9 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 seek | advcl |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 want | obj |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 want | nsubj |
| 12 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 get | ccomp |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 money | punct |
| 14 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 money | det |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 money | cop |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 is | punct |
| 17 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 seek | parataxis |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 buy | mark |
| 19 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 money | acl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 cow | det |
| 21 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 buy | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 pig | cc |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 pig | det |
| 24 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 cow | conj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 fatten | mark |
| 26 | fatten | fatten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 pig | acl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 seek | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | shall | I | like bees = bee | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | get | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | want | present | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | that money | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | buy | to-infinitive | I not said here | a cow and a pig | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Theme | ||||
| 6 | fatten | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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