The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 56
In this time however, she had taken a liking to Esben, and would willingly have set him free, but could not.
Who acts: daughter · What happens: take, set · To what, where: liking, Esben, property
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 taken | obl |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 3 time | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 taken | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 taken | aux |
| 8 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 liking | det |
| 10 | liking | liking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 taken | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Esben | case |
| 12 | Esben | Esben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 taken | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 set | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 set | cc |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 set | aux |
| 16 | willingly | willingly | ADV | _ | 18 set | advmod |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 set | aux |
| 18 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 taken | parataxis |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 set | obj |
| 20 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 set | xcomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 could | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 could | cc |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 set | conj |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 could | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · perfect | daughter | a liking | Esben | time | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent liking=Theme to esben=Destination | ||
| 2 | set | would · perfect | property | free, willingly property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient he=Result |
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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