The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 3, sentence 4
‘Little simpleton, you should have everything heart can desire.’
Who acts: you, Little simpleton · What happens: have, desire · To what, where: everything heart
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Little simpleton), 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 simpleton | punct |
| 2 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 simpleton | amod |
| 3 | simpleton | simpleton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 desire | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 have | punct |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 have | nsubj |
| 6 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 have | aux |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 simpleton | acl:relcl |
| 8 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 9 heart | compound |
| 9 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 have | obj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 desire | aux |
| 11 | desire | desire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 desire | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 desire | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | should | you | everything heart | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | ||||
| 2 | desire | can | Little simpleton | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/36/4/