The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 93
‘We desire to enter,’ said one of the princes sharply to a servant who stood near the door.
Who acts: We, one, servant · What happens: desire, enter, say, stand · To what, where: door · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, one, servant), 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 | _ | 3 desire | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 desire | nsubj |
| 3 | desire | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 enter | mark |
| 5 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 desire | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 desire | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 desire | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 princes | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 princes | det |
| 12 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 one | nmod |
| 13 | sharply | sharply | ADV | _ | 16 servant | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 servant | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 servant | det |
| 16 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 princes | nmod |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 stood | nsubj |
| 18 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 servant | acl:relcl |
| 19 | near | near | ADP | _ | 21 door | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 door | det |
| 21 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stood | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | desire | present | We | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | enter not said to happen | to-infinitive | We not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | one of the princes to a servant | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | stand | past | a servant | the door | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near door=Location |
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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