The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 141
‘I should like to know if you deserve to be run all over the world!’
Who acts: I, you · What happens: like, know, deserve, run · To what, where: world
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you), 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 | _ | 4 like | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 like | nsubj |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 like | aux |
| 4 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 know | mark |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 like | xcomp |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 deserve | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 deserve | nsubj |
| 9 | deserve | deserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 know | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 run | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 run | aux:pass |
| 12 | run | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 deserve | ccomp |
| 13 | all | all | ADV | _ | 16 world | advmod |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 world | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 world | det |
| 16 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 run | obl |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 like | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 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 | know not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | deserve a condition, not said to happen | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | run | to-infinitive · passive | you not said here | the world | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: over world=Trajectory |
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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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