The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 46
I should like to see what manner of bird it is.’
Who acts: I, bird · What happens: like, see, be · To what, where: manner
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nunda, Eater of People. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, bird), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 like | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 like | aux |
| 3 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 see | mark |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 like | xcomp |
| 6 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 7 manner | det |
| 7 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 see | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 bird | case |
| 9 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 manner | nmod |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 is | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 manner | acl:relcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 like | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | SYM | _ | 3 like | discourse |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | should | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | what manner of bird | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer manner=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | be | present | bird | what manner of bird not said here | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot manner=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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