The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 124
You wish to know why we never eat of the thirteenth dish?
Who acts: You, we · What happens: wish, know, not eat · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 wish | nsubj |
| 2 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 know | mark |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 wish | xcomp |
| 5 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 eat | advmod |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 eat | nsubj |
| 7 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 eat | advmod |
| 8 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | ccomp |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 dish | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 dish | det |
| 11 | thirteenth | thirteenth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 dish | amod |
| 12 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 eat | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | present | You | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | know not said to happen | to-infinitive | You not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | not eat | present | we | of the thirteenth dish | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of dish=Source |
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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