The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 78
Just now, however, I must go and look for my pinks, which I love better than anything in the world.”
Who acts: I · What happens: go, look, love · To what, where: pinks
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 2 now | advmod |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 go | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 now | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 8 go | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 go | nsubj |
| 7 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 go | aux |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 look | cc |
| 10 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 go | conj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 pinks | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 pinks | nmod:poss |
| 13 | pinks | pink | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 look | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 love | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 love | obj |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 love | nsubj |
| 17 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 pinks | acl:relcl |
| 18 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 17 love | advmod |
| 19 | than | than | ADP | _ | 20 anything | case |
| 20 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 18 better | obl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 world | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 world | det |
| 23 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 anything | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 go | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | must | I | now | however property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | look | infinitive | I not said here | for my pinks | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for pink=Theme | ||||
| 3 | love | present | I | my pinks | well property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus |
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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