The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 58
“Bring me the creature’s heart; it is just what I want for supper.”
Who acts: you, heart, lion · What happens: bring, be, want · To what, where: heart, lion
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, heart, lion), 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 | _ | 2 Bring | punct |
| 2 | Bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Bring | obj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 creature | det |
| 5 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 heart | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 creature | case |
| 7 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Bring | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 what | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 what | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 what | cop |
| 11 | just | just | ADV | _ | 12 what | advmod |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 Bring | conj |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 want | nsubj |
| 14 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 what | acl:relcl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 supper | case |
| 16 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 want | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bring | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring in a quote | imperative | you not said here | the creature's heart | lion | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination heart=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | heart | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | want in a quote | present | lion | for supper | 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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