The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 54
Next he will want to know how you got it, and to this you must say that but for the knob you had not got it at all.
Who acts: king, you · What happens: want, know, get, say, not get · To what, where: Sword, that, this, all · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, you), 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 | Next | next | ADV | _ | 4 want | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 want | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 want | aux |
| 4 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 know | mark |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 want | xcomp |
| 7 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 got | advmod |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 got | nsubj |
| 9 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 know | ccomp |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 got | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 say | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 say | cc |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 this | case |
| 14 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 say | obl |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 say | nsubj |
| 16 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 say | aux |
| 17 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 want | parataxis |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 say | obj |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 got | cc |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 knob | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 knob | det |
| 22 | knob | knob | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 got | obl |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 got | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 got | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 got | advmod |
| 26 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 say | conj |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 got | obj |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 all | case |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 got | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | future | king | next property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | know not said to happen | to-infinitive | king not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | get | past | you | Sword | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | must | you | that | this | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Topic to this=Recipient | |||
| 5 | not get | past · perfect | you | Sword | all | for the knob | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme for knob=Source |
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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