The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 20
‘I have always longed to have a dear little girl just like you, and you shall see how happy we will be together.’
Who acts: I, you, we · What happens: long, have, see, be · To what, where: dear little girl · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, we), 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 | _ | 5 longed | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 longed | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 longed | aux |
| 4 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 5 longed | advmod |
| 5 | longed | long | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 have | mark |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 longed | xcomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 girl | det |
| 9 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 girl | amod |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 girl | amod |
| 11 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 have | obj |
| 12 | just | just | ADV | _ | 14 you | advmod |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 you | case |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 have | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 see | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 see | cc |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 see | nsubj |
| 18 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 see | aux |
| 19 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 longed | conj |
| 20 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 happy | advmod |
| 21 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 see | xcomp |
| 22 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 together | nsubj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 together | aux |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 together | cop |
| 25 | together | together | ADV | _ | 19 see | ccomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 longed | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 longed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | long | present · perfect | I | always property | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | a dear little girl | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Patient | ||||
| 3 | see | shall | you | happy property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | is | future | we | together property | 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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