The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 29
I desire to take them both to Court, in order to make their fortunes.’
Who acts: I · What happens: desire, take, make · To what, where: officers, Court, fortunes
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Ring. 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 desire | nsubj |
| 2 | desire | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 take | mark |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 desire | xcomp |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 take | obj |
| 6 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 them | appos |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Court | case |
| 8 | Court | Court | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 take | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 make | punct |
| 10 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 13 make | mark |
| 11 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 in | fixed |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 make | mark |
| 13 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 take | conj |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 fortunes | nmod:poss |
| 15 | fortunes | fortune | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 make | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 desire | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 desire | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | desire | present | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | officers = officer | Court | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to court=Destination | |||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | I not said here | officers's fortunes | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fortune=Product |
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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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