The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 46

I want a sharp fellow in the house, and you please me.’

Who acts: I · What happens: want · To what, where: sharp fellow, house

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 1. 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 want	nsubj
2	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fellow	det
4	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fellow	amod
5	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 want	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 house	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 house	det
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fellow	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 me	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 me	cc
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 me	nsubj
12	please	please	INTJ	_	13 me	discourse
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 want	conj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 want	punct
15	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	I	a sharp fellow		the house			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot fellow=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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