The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 18

‘Would you like to be rich,’ asked the devil, ‘and to lead a pleasant life?’

Who acts: you · What happens: like, be, ask, lead · To what, where: devil, pleasant life · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct
2	Would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 like	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 like	nsubj
4	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 asked	ccomp
5	to	to	PART	_	7 rich	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 rich	cop
7	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 like	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct
10	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 devil	det
12	devil	devil	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 asked	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 ‘	punct
14	‘	‘	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 devil	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 lead	cc
16	to	to	PART	_	17 lead	mark
17	lead	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 asked	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 life	det
19	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 life	amod
20	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lead	obj
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 lead	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	17 lead	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	like	would	you				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot
2	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here			rich property	tree rules
3	ask speech: ask	past			the devil and ‘		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent devil=Recipient clause=Topic
4	lead	to-infinitive		a pleasant life			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=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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