The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 3, sentence 17

Will you believe it! she actually wanted to claim authority over you for ever, because you came out of the tower four days before the twenty years were ended.

Who acts: you, Dwarf, twenty years · What happens: believe, want, claim, come out, be · To what, where: Fairy, authority

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, 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, Dwarf, twenty years), 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	Will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 believe	aux
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 believe	nsubj
3	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 believe	obj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 wanted	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 wanted	nsubj
7	actually	actually	ADV	_	8 wanted	advmod
8	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 believe	advcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 claim	mark
10	claim	claim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 wanted	xcomp
11	authority	authority	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 claim	obj
12	over	over	ADP	_	13 you	case
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 claim	obl
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 ever	case
15	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	10 claim	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 came	punct
17	because	because	SCONJ	_	19 came	mark
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 came	nsubj
19	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 wanted	conj
20	out	out	ADV	_	19 came	advmod
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 tower	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 tower	det
23	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 came	obl
24	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 days	nummod
25	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 came	obl:unmarked
26	before	before	SCONJ	_	31 ended	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 years	det
28	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 years	nummod
29	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 ended	nsubj
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 ended	cop
31	ended	ended	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 came	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 believe	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	believe	future	you	Fairy			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	want	past	Dwarf			actually property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	claim speech: other not said to happen	to-infinitive	Dwarf not said here	authority		over you	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent authority=Topic
4	come out	past	you		day	of the tower; out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
5	is	past	the twenty years			ended property	tree rules

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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