The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 29
I can take,’ he added proudly, ‘any shape I choose, and even, which is much harder, be invisible if I want to.’
Who acts: I, Jegu · What happens: take, add, choose, be, want
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Jegu), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 take | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 take | aux |
| 3 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 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 | 3 take | conj |
| 8 | proudly | proudly | ADV | _ | 7 added | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 choose | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ‘ | ADP | _ | 12 shape | case |
| 11 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 shape | det |
| 12 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 choose | obl |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 choose | nsubj |
| 14 | choose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 take | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 harder | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 harder | cc |
| 17 | even | even | ADV | _ | 22 harder | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 harder | punct |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 harder | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 harder | cop |
| 21 | much | much | ADV | _ | 22 harder | advmod |
| 22 | harder | hard | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 choose | advcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 invisible | punct |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 invisible | cop |
| 25 | invisible | invisible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 harder | conj |
| 26 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 28 want | mark |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 want | nsubj |
| 28 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 invisible | advcl |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 want | xcomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
| 31 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | can | I | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | add speech: assert | past | Jegu | proudly property | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | choose | present | I | ‘ any shape | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is | present | hard property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | is | infinitive | invisible property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | want a condition, not said to happen | present | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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