The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 22
If she had only been like me, who never want to know anything, we should all have been as happy as kings to-day, with plenty to eat, and warm clothes to wear.
Who acts: Eve, we, warm clothes · What happens: have, be, not want, know, eat, wear · To what, where: anything
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 (Eve, we, warm clothes), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 had | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 happy | advcl |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 me | advmod |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 me | cop |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 me | case |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 had | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 want | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 want | obj |
| 10 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 11 want | advmod |
| 11 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 know | mark |
| 13 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 want | xcomp |
| 14 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 13 know | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 happy | nsubj |
| 17 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 happy | aux |
| 18 | all | all | ADV | _ | 22 happy | advmod |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 happy | aux |
| 20 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 happy | cop |
| 21 | as | as | ADV | _ | 22 happy | advmod |
| 22 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 kings | case |
| 24 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 happy | obl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 day | case |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 to | punct |
| 27 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 kings | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 plenty | punct |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 plenty | case |
| 30 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 kings | conj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 eat | mark |
| 32 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 plenty | acl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 wear | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 wear | cc |
| 35 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 clothes | amod |
| 36 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 38 wear | nsubj |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 wear | mark |
| 38 | wear | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 happy | parataxis |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 happy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have a condition, not said to happen | past | Eve | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | participle | like me | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not want | present | Eve not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | know not said to happen | to-infinitive | Eve not said here | anything | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | is | should · perfect | we | as kings to day and plenty; all, happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | eat | to-infinitive | we not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | wear | to-infinitive | warm clothes | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=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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