The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 58
Indeed, Barbaik had only to express a wish for it to be satisfied.
Who acts: Barbaik, wish · What happens: have, express, be · To what, where: wish
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 (Barbaik, wish), 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 | Indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 4 had | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Indeed | punct |
| 3 | Barbaik | Barbaik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 express | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 express | mark |
| 7 | express | express | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 had | xcomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 wish | det |
| 9 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 express | obj |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 satisfied | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 satisfied | nsubj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 satisfied | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 satisfied | cop |
| 14 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 express | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Barbaik | indeed property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | express | to-infinitive | Barbaik not said here | a wish | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | wish | satisfied 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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