The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 13
‘I ask nothing better than to marry,’ replied Désiré, ‘but I have never seen a woman that pleases me.
Who acts: I, Désiré, woman · What happens: ask, marry, reply, not see, please · To what, where: nothing, woman, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Désiré, woman), 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 ask | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 ask | nsubj |
| 3 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 replied | ccomp |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 ask | obj |
| 5 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 nothing | amod |
| 6 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 8 marry | mark |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 marry | mark |
| 8 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 better | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 ask | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 ask | punct |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Désiré | Désiré | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 seen | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 seen | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 seen | cc |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 seen | nsubj |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 seen | aux |
| 18 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 19 seen | advmod |
| 19 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 replied | advcl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 woman | det |
| 21 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 seen | obj |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 pleases | nsubj |
| 23 | pleases | please | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 woman | acl:relcl |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 pleases | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | I | nothing | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent nothing=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | marry | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | Désiré | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not see | present · perfect | I | a woman | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | please | present | a woman | me | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer |
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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