The Green Fairy Book, The Snuff-box, sentence 82
Why, I want to go with my palace to the old place, and for the King and the Queen and all their servants to be drowned in the Red Sea.’
Who acts: I · What happens: want, go, drown · To what, where: old place, Red Sea
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Snuff-box. 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 want | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 want | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 want | nsubj |
| 4 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 go | mark |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 want | xcomp |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 palace | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 palace | nmod:poss |
| 9 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 go | obl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 place | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 place | det |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 place | amod |
| 13 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 go | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 King | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 King | cc |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 King | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 King | det |
| 18 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 want | parataxis |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 Queen | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Queen | det |
| 21 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 King | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 servants | cc |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 servants | det:predet |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 servants | nmod:poss |
| 25 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 King | conj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 drowned | mark |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 drowned | aux:pass |
| 28 | drowned | drown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 servants | acl |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 Sea | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Sea | det |
| 31 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Sea | compound |
| 32 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 drowned | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 want | punct |
| 34 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | the old place | with my palace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | drown | to-infinitive · passive | I not said here | the Red Sea | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP» |
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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