The Yellow Fairy Book, The Golden Crab(5), sentence 90
And now she desired him to guide her thither at once.
Who acts: Princess · What happens: desire, guide · To what, where: thing, Princess
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Crab(5). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess), 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 | _ | 4 desired | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 desired | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 desired | nsubj |
| 4 | desired | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 desired | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 guide | mark |
| 7 | guide | guide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 desired | advcl |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 guide | obj |
| 9 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 7 guide | advmod |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 once | case |
| 11 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 7 guide | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 desired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | desire | past | Princess | thing | now | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot he=Theme | |||
| 2 | guide | to-infinitive | Princess not said here | Princess | thither property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent her=Theme at once=Destination |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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