The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 46

I have a fancy for them, for the sake of old times.’

Who acts: I · What happens: have · To what, where: fancy

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37. 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 fancy	det
4	fancy	fancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fancy	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sake	punct
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 sake	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sake	det
10	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 times	case
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 times	amod
13	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sake	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct
15	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	I	a fancy				for seas = sea	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fancy=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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