The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 112
‘I am wanting to play a game with the curly-haired Gruagach,’ said he.
Who acts: I, King · What happens: want, play, say · To what, where: game · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, King), 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 | _ | 4 wanting | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 wanting | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 wanting | aux |
| 4 | wanting | want | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 said | ccomp |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 play | mark |
| 6 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wanting | xcomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 game | det |
| 8 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 play | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 Gruagach | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Gruagach | det |
| 11 | curly | curly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 haired | amod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 curly | punct |
| 13 | haired | haired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Gruagach | amod |
| 14 | Gruagach | Gruagach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 play | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wanting | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 wanting | punct |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 said | nsubj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present · progressive | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | play not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | a game | with the haired Gruagach | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent game=Theme with gruagach=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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