The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 2, sentence 13
‘I should so like to go and amuse myself with the other children.’
Who acts: I · What happens: like, go, amuse · To what, where: myself
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | _ | 5 like | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 like | nsubj |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 like | aux |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 like | advmod |
| 5 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 go | mark |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 like | xcomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 amuse | cc |
| 9 | amuse | amuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 go | conj |
| 10 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 amuse | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 children | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 children | det |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 children | amod |
| 14 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 amuse | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 like | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | should | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | amuse | infinitive | I not said here | myself | with the other children | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus myself=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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