The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 72
In the third place I shall wish for you a violent death.’
Who acts: I · What happens: wish · To what, where: violent death, third place
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | _ | 4 place | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 place | det |
| 3 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 place | amod |
| 4 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wish | obl |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 wish | nsubj |
| 6 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 wish | aux |
| 7 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 you | case |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 wish | obl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 death | det |
| 11 | violent | violent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 death | amod |
| 12 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wish | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 wish | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | shall | I | a violent death | the third place | for you | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot death=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/31/72/