The Red Fairy Book, The Marvellous Musician, sentence 9
‘I’ve not the smallest wish for his society.’
Who acts: I · What happens: not have · To what, where: smallest wish
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 ’ve | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 ’ve | nsubj |
| 3 | ’ve | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 ’ve | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wish | det |
| 6 | smallest | small | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 wish | amod |
| 7 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ’ve | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 society | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 society | nmod:poss |
| 10 | society | society | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wish | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’ve | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’ve | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not have | present | I | the smallest wish | for musician's society | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=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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