The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 99
The girl loved them both, and never wished for things to be different.
Who acts: girl · What happens: love, not wish, be · To what, where: wings
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 loved | nsubj |
| 3 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 loved | obj |
| 5 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 loved | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 wished | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wished | cc |
| 8 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 9 wished | advmod |
| 9 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 loved | conj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 things | case |
| 11 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 wished | obl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 different | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 different | cop |
| 14 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wished | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 loved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | past | the girl | wings = wing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not wish | past | the girl not said here | for things | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for thing=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | the girl not said here | different property | tree rules |
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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