The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 7
‘Ah! to grow and grow, and become great and old! that is the only pleasure in life,’ thought the tree.
Who acts: that · What happens: grow, become, be, think · To what, where: only pleasure, life, tree · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that), 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 | _ | 5 grow | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 5 grow | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 grow | mark |
| 5 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 thought | ccomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 grow | cc |
| 7 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 grow | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 become | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 become | cc |
| 10 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 grow | advcl |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 become | xcomp |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 old | cc |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 great | conj |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 19 pleasure | punct |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 pleasure | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 pleasure | cop |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 pleasure | det |
| 18 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 pleasure | amod |
| 19 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grow | parataxis |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 life | case |
| 21 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pleasure | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 grow | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 grow | punct |
| 24 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 tree | det |
| 26 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 thought | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | to-infinitive | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | grow | infinitive | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | become | infinitive | great property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | that | the only pleasure | life | tree rules | |||
| 5 | think speech: other | past | the tree | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent tree=Attribute clause=Theme |
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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