The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 97
You see I like so much better to fight with bears.’
Who acts: You, I · What happens: see, like, fight · To what, where: better · 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 (You, I), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 see | nsubj |
| 2 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 like | nsubj |
| 4 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 see | ccomp |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 much | advmod |
| 6 | much | much | ADV | _ | 7 better | advmod |
| 7 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 see | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 fight | mark |
| 9 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 better | advcl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 bears | case |
| 11 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 fight | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 see | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | You | better | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | like | present | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | fight | to-infinitive | You not said here | with bears | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with bear=Co-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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