The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 59
Snowflake did not wish to go either, but they had no excuse ready.
Who acts: Snowflake, children · What happens: not wish, go, have · To what, where: excuse
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Snowflake, children), 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 | Snowflake | snowflake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wish | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wish | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 wish | advmod |
| 4 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 go | mark |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wish | xcomp |
| 7 | either | either | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 go | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 had | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 had | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wish | parataxis |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 excuse | det |
| 13 | excuse | excuse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 had | obj |
| 14 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 had | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not wish | past · do-support | Snowflake | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | Snowflake not said here | either property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | past | children = child | no excuse | ready property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent excuse=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 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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