The Red Fairy Book, The Three Princesses of Whiteland, sentence 34
At last, however, he took a fancy to go home for a short time to see his parents.
Who acts: flask · What happens: take, go, see · To what, where: fancy, last, parents
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princesses of Whiteland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flask), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 took | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 last | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 7 took | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 took | nsubj |
| 7 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 fancy | det |
| 9 | fancy | fancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 go | mark |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 fancy | acl |
| 12 | home | home | ADV | _ | 11 go | advmod |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 time | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 time | det |
| 15 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 time | amod |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 go | obl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 see | mark |
| 18 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 time | acl |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 parents | nmod:poss |
| 20 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 see | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | flask | a fancy | last | however property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent fancy=Theme at last=Asset | ||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | flask not said here | a fancy not said here | time | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | flask not said here | flask's parents | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer parent=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 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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