The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 28

‘After you have lived on fish for fifty years you begin to feel you would like a change.

Who acts: you · What happens: live, begin, feel, like · To what, where: fifty years, change

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 lived	punct
2	After	after	SCONJ	_	5 lived	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 lived	nsubj
4	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 lived	aux
5	lived	live	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 fish	case
7	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lived	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 years	case
9	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 years	nummod
10	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lived	obl
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 begin	nsubj
12	begin	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 years	acl:relcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 feel	mark
14	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 begin	xcomp
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 like	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 like	aux
17	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 feel	ccomp
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 change	det
19	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 like	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	live	present · perfect	you		year	on fish	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on fish=Location
2	begin	present	you	fifty years not said here			tree rules
3	feel	to-infinitive	you not said here				vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	like	would	you	a change			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot change=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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