The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 49
I want to live in the town, and work at some trade.’
Who acts: I · What happens: want, live · To what, where: town
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 want | nsubj |
| 2 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 live | mark |
| 4 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 want | xcomp |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 town | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 town | det |
| 7 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 live | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 work | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 work | cc |
| 10 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 town | appos |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 trade | case |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 trade | det |
| 13 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 work | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 want | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | live not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | the town | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in town=Location |
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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