The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 101
WE should never have wanted to know what was in the soup-tureen!’
Who acts: WE · What happens: not want, know, be · To what, where: soup tureen · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (WE), 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 | WE | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wanted | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 wanted | aux |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 wanted | advmod |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 wanted | aux |
| 5 | wanted | want | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 know | mark |
| 7 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 wanted | xcomp |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 tureen | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 tureen | cop |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 tureen | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tureen | det |
| 12 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tureen | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 soup | punct |
| 14 | tureen | tureen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 know | ccomp |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 tureen | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 tureen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not want | should · perfect | WE | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | know not said to happen | to-infinitive | WE not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the soup tureen | 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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