The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 87

‘I wanted to see if you were faithful and capable of feeling a real friendship for me, for you see we fairies are rich in everything but friends, and those are hard to find.’

Who acts: I, you, we, those · What happens: want, see, be, feel, find · To what, where: real friendship, everything · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, we, those), 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	_	3 wanted	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 see	mark
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wanted	xcomp
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 faithful	mark
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 faithful	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 faithful	cop
9	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 see	ccomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 capable	cc
11	capable	capable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 faithful	conj
12	of	of	SCONJ	_	13 feeling	mark
13	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 capable	advcl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 friendship	det
15	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 friendship	amod
16	friendship	friendship	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 feeling	obj
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 me	case
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 feeling	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 see	punct
20	for	for	SCONJ	_	22 see	mark
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 see	nsubj
22	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wanted	parataxis
23	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 rich	nsubj
24	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 we	appos
25	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 rich	cop
26	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 see	ccomp
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 everything	case
28	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	26 rich	obl
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 friends	cc
30	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 everything	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 hard	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 hard	cc
33	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	35 hard	nsubj
34	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 hard	cop
35	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 see	conj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 find	mark
37	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 hard	xcomp
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wanted	punct
39	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 wanted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	want	past	I				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a condition, not said to happen	past	you			faithful property	tree rules
4	be		you not said here				tree rules
5	feel	gerund	you not said here	a real friendship		for me	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent friendship=Location for i=Theme
6	see	present	you				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	is	present	we		everything	rich property	tree rules
8	is	present	those			hard property	tree rules
9	find	to-infinitive	those not said here				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=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 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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