The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 15
The eldest wished to be a blacksmith, the second a barber, and the third a fencing-master.
What happens: wish, be · To what, where: blacksmith
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 eldest | det |
| 2 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 3 | wished | wish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 eldest | acl |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 blacksmith | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 blacksmith | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 blacksmith | det |
| 7 | blacksmith | blacksmith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wished | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 barber | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 second | det |
| 10 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 barber | amod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 barber | det |
| 12 | barber | barber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 blacksmith | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 third | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 third | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 third | det |
| 16 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 blacksmith | amod |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 master | det |
| 18 | fencing | fencing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 master | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 fencing | punct |
| 20 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 third | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 eldest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | participle | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | a blacksmith and a second barber | tree rules |
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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