The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 43
Here I have nothing of my own to offer you, but if you would only consent to come home with me, how gladly would I give you anything that might happen to take your fancy.’
Who acts: I, you, your · What happens: have, offer, consent, come, give, happen · To what, where: nothing, you, anything, fancy
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 (I, you, your), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 have | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 have | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 own | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 own | nmod:poss |
| 7 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 nothing | nmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 offer | mark |
| 9 | offer | offer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 nothing | acl |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 offer | iobj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 consent | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 consent | cc |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 consent | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 consent | nsubj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 consent | aux |
| 16 | only | only | ADV | _ | 17 consent | advmod |
| 17 | consent | consent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 have | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 come | mark |
| 19 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 consent | xcomp |
| 20 | home | home | ADV | _ | 19 come | advmod |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 me | case |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 come | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 give | punct |
| 24 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 gladly | advmod |
| 25 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 28 give | advmod |
| 26 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 give | aux |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 give | nsubj |
| 28 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 come | conj |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 give | iobj |
| 30 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 28 give | obj |
| 31 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 happen | nsubj |
| 32 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 happen | aux |
| 33 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 anything | acl:relcl |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 take | mark |
| 35 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 happen | xcomp |
| 36 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 fancy | nmod:poss |
| 37 | fancy | fancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 take | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 39 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | nothing | here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | |||
| 2 | offer | to-infinitive | I not said here | nothing not said here | you | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||
| 3 | consent a condition, not said to happen | would | you | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | come | to-infinitive | you not said here | with me; home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | give | would | I | anything | you | gladly property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient anything=Theme | ||
| 6 | happen | might | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | take | to-infinitive | your fancy | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fancy=Theme | |||||
| 8 | fancy | your | nom fancy «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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