The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 112

‘I will by-and-by, but first I want to ask you a question!

Who acts: I · What happens: want, ask · To what, where: question, you

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3. 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	_	13 want	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 will	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 want	aux
4	by	by	ADP	_	3 will	conj
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 by	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 by	cc
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 by	punct
8	by	by	ADP	_	4 by	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 want	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 want	cc
11	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	13 want	advmod
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 want	nsubj
13	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	to	to	PART	_	15 ask	mark
15	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 want	xcomp
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 ask	iobj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 question	det
18	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ask	obj
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	13 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	future	I					first property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	ask speech: ask not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	a question	you				tree rules

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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