The Red Fairy Book, The Marvellous Musician, sentence 26
‘A fox; well, I haven’t the smallest desire for his company.’
Who acts: I · What happens: have · To what, where: smallest desire
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Marvellous Musician. 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 | _ | 3 fox | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 fox | det |
| 3 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 have | punct |
| 5 | well | well | INTJ | _ | 8 have | discourse |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 well | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 have | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fox | conj |
| 9 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 desire | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 desire | det |
| 11 | smallest | small | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 desire | amod |
| 12 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 have | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 company | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 company | nmod:poss |
| 15 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 desire | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fox | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 fox | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | the smallest desire | for fox's company | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desire=Patient |
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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