The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 280
At first she didn’t want to go to the wedding at all, but at the same time she felt she would never be happy till she had seen the young Queen.
Who acts: woman · What happens: not want, go, feel, not be, see · To what, where: all, same time, young Queen
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 first | case |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 want | obl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 want | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 want | aux |
| 5 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 want | advmod |
| 6 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 go | mark |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 want | xcomp |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 wedding | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wedding | det |
| 11 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 go | obl |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 all | case |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 go | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 happy | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 happy | cc |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 time | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 time | det |
| 18 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 time | amod |
| 19 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 happy | obl |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 felt | nsubj |
| 21 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 time | acl:relcl |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 happy | nsubj |
| 23 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 happy | aux |
| 24 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 26 happy | advmod |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 happy | cop |
| 26 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 want | parataxis |
| 27 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 30 seen | mark |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 seen | nsubj |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 seen | aux |
| 30 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 happy | advcl |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Queen | det |
| 32 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 Queen | amod |
| 33 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 seen | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not want | past · do-support | woman | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | woman not said here | all | to the wedding | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wedding=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | feel | past | woman | the same time not said here | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not is | would | woman | time | happy property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | see | past · perfect | woman | the young Queen | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer queen=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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