The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 43

‘It is my lord, the Wind, that you want,’ answered the old woman who opened it.

Who acts: need, you, lord, old woman · What happens: be, want, answer, open · To what, where: lord, old woman, need

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (need, you, lord, old woman), 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	_	15 answered	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lord	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 lord	cop
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 lord	nmod:poss
5	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 answered	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Wind	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Wind	det
8	Wind	Wind	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 lord	appos
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 want	punct
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 want	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 want	nsubj
12	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 lord	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 want	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 want	punct
15	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 woman	det
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 woman	amod
18	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 answered	obj
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 opened	nsubj
20	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 woman	acl:relcl
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 opened	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	is a	present	need	my lord		tree rules
2	want	present	you			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	answer speech: assert	past	my lord		the old woman	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent woman=Eventuality
4	open	past	the old woman	need		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=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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