The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 249
“In my mind it wants but one thing.”
Who acts: discovery, my · What happens: want, mind · To what, where: one thing, mind
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (discovery, my), 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 | _ | 6 wants | punct |
| 2 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 mind | case |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 mind | nmod:poss |
| 4 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wants | obl |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 wants | nsubj |
| 6 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 thing | cc |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 thing | nummod |
| 9 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wants | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 wants | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 wants | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want in a quote | present | discovery | one thing | my mind | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme | |||
| 2 | mind in a quote | my | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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