The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 86

‘After all, what do I want with so many?

Who acts: I · What happens: want

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	_	8 want	punct
2	After	after	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 want	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 all	punct
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 want	obj
6	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 want	aux
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 want	nsubj
8	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 many	case
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 many	advmod
11	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 want	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present · do-support	I				after all	with many	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme

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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