The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 3
My only pleasure is to have a good chat with my companions when I am lying nice and clean in my place after dinner.”
Who acts: only pleasure, I, My · What happens: be, lie, please · To what, where: place
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (only pleasure, I, My), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 pleasure | nmod:poss |
| 2 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pleasure | amod |
| 3 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 have | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 have | cop |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 have | mark |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 chat | det |
| 8 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 chat | amod |
| 9 | chat | chat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 have | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 companions | case |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 companions | nmod:poss |
| 12 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 chat | nmod |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 lying | advmod |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 lying | nsubj |
| 15 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 lying | aux |
| 16 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 have | parataxis |
| 17 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 lying | xcomp |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 clean | cc |
| 19 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 nice | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 place | case |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 place | nmod:poss |
| 22 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lying | obl |
| 23 | after | after | ADP | _ | 24 dinner | case |
| 24 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lying | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 have | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | My only pleasure | have property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lie | present · progressive | I | my place | after dinner | nice property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=Location | ||
| 3 | please | My | nom pleasure «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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