The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 109
Like desire? or like a curse?’
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1. 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 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 2 desire | case |
| 2 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 desire | punct |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 curse | cc |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 curse | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 curse | det |
| 7 | curse | curse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 desire | conj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 curse | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 curse | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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