The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 40
He only deceived you because he wanted something for supper.’
Who acts: heron · What happens: deceive, want · To what, where: you, something
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heron), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 deceived | nsubj |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 deceived | advmod |
| 3 | deceived | deceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 deceived | obj |
| 5 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 7 wanted | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 wanted | nsubj |
| 7 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 deceived | advcl |
| 8 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 wanted | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 supper | case |
| 10 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 something | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 deceived | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 deceived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deceive | past | heron | you | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | ||||
| 2 | want | past | heron | something | for supper | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot something=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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