The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 59
‘We are to have what we want, and do what we please.
Who acts: We · What happens: be, want, do
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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 have | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 have | cop |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 have | mark |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 have | obj |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 want | nsubj |
| 8 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 what | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 do | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 do | cc |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 have | conj |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 do | obj |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 please | nsubj |
| 14 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 12 what | discourse |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | We | have property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | want | present | we | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | do | present | We not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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