The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 49
And it was quite natural that he should want to do this.
Who acts: it, maid · What happens: be, want, do · To what, where: this
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 (it, maid), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 natural | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 natural | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 natural | cop |
| 4 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 5 natural | advmod |
| 5 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 want | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 want | nsubj |
| 8 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 want | aux |
| 9 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 natural | csubj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 do | mark |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 want | xcomp |
| 12 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 do | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 natural | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | it | natural property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | want | should | maid | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | maid not said here | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality |
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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