The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 81

While now I can receive no presents except from my husband.

Who acts: I · What happens: receive · To what, where: presents

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), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	2 now	mark
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 receive	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 receive	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 receive	aux
5	receive	receive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 presents	det
7	presents	present	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 receive	obj
8	except	except	ADP	_	11 husband	case
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 husband	case
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 husband	nmod:poss
11	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 receive	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 receive	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	receive	can	I	no presents			now	except my husband	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent present=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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