The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 34
But the youngest Princess did not want to go near the table or to open the book.
Who acts: youngest Princess · What happens: not want, go, open · To what, where: table, book
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youngest Princess), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 want | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Princess | det |
| 3 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 Princess | amod |
| 4 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 want | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 want | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 want | advmod |
| 7 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 go | mark |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 want | xcomp |
| 10 | near | near | ADP | _ | 12 table | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 table | det |
| 12 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 go | obl |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 open | cc |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 open | mark |
| 15 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 go | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 book | det |
| 17 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 open | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not want | past · do-support | the youngest Princess | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | the youngest Princess not said here | the table | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near table=Location | ||||
| 3 | open | to-infinitive | the youngest Princess not said here | the book | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location book=Theme |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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