The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 92

‘Would you not like to stay here always?’ asked the Groac’h; and Bellah answered that she desired nothing better.

Who acts: you, Bellah · What happens: not like, stay, ask, answer, desire · To what, where: Groac’h, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (you, Bellah), 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 like	punct
2	Would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 like	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 like	nsubj
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 like	advmod
5	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 asked	ccomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 stay	mark
7	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 like	xcomp
8	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 stay	advmod
9	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 stay	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 like	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 like	punct
12	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Groac’h	det
14	Groac’h	Groac'h	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 asked	iobj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 answered	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 answered	cc
17	Bellah	Bellah	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 answered	nsubj
18	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 asked	parataxis
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 desired	mark
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 desired	nsubj
21	desired	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 answered	ccomp
22	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	21 desired	obj
23	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 nothing	amod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not like	would	you					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	stay not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here			here	always property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	ask speech: ask	past			the Groac’h			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent groac'h=Recipient clause=Topic
4	answer speech: assert	past	Bellah					tree rules
5	desire	past	Bellah	nothing				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot nothing=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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