The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 92
For I have no desire to live since my bridegroom, the beautiful Prince Milan, has deserted me.’
Who acts: I · What happens: have, live, desert · To what, where: desire, beautiful Prince Milan
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 3. 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 3 have | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 deserted | advcl |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 desire | det |
| 5 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 live | mark |
| 7 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 desire | acl |
| 8 | since | since | ADP | _ | 10 bridegroom | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 bridegroom | nmod:poss |
| 10 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 live | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Milan | det |
| 13 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Milan | amod |
| 14 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Milan | compound |
| 15 | Milan | Milan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 deserted | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Milan | punct |
| 17 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 deserted | aux |
| 18 | deserted | desert | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 deserted | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 deserted | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 deserted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | no desire | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desire=Patient | ||||
| 2 | live | to-infinitive | I not said here | no desire not said here | since my bridegroom | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | desert | present · perfect · passive | the beautiful Prince Milan | tree rules |
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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