The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 190
He did not wish the dragon to know where he lived, lest some day he should come to take back his treasure.
Who acts: Stan · What happens: not wish, know, live, come, take back, treasure · To what, where: dragon, treasure · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Stan), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wish | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wish | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 wish | advmod |
| 4 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dragon | det |
| 6 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wish | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 know | mark |
| 8 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 dragon | acl |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 lived | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 lived | nsubj |
| 11 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 know | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 come | punct |
| 13 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 18 come | mark |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 day | det |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 come | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 come | nsubj |
| 17 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 come | aux |
| 18 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wish | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 take | mark |
| 20 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 come | xcomp |
| 21 | back | back | ADV | _ | 20 take | advmod |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 treasure | nmod:poss |
| 23 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 take | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not wish | past · do-support | Stan | the dragon | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot dragon=Theme | ||||
| 2 | know | to-infinitive | Stan not said here | the dragon not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | live | past | Stan | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | come | should | Stan | day | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | take back | to-infinitive | Stan not said here | Stan's treasure | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme | ||||
| 6 | treasure | Stan | nom treasure «possession 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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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