The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 19
‘For myself,’ he added, with a laugh, ‘I only ask for the half of your wealth.’
Who acts: rich, I · What happens: add, ask
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rich, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 added | punct |
| 2 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 myself | case |
| 3 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 added | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 added | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 added | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 added | nsubj |
| 7 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 laugh | punct |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 laugh | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 laugh | det |
| 11 | laugh | laugh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 added | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ask | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 ask | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 ask | nsubj |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 ask | advmod |
| 16 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 added | parataxis |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 half | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 half | det |
| 19 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 16 ask | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 wealth | case |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 wealth | nmod:poss |
| 22 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 half | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 added | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 added | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | past | rich | for myself; with a laugh | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent with laugh=Co-Patient | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | present | I | for the half of your wealth | vn inquire-37.1.2 «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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