The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, sentence 48

I want you to come back with me to the Green Castle, but I don’t want to walk there, it is so far, and walking is so fatiguing.’

Who acts: I, you, Castle, walking · What happens: want, come back, not want, walk, be, fatigue · To what, where: you, Green Castle

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, Castle, walking), 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	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 want	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 come	mark
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 want	xcomp
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 come	advmod
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 me	case
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 come	obl
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 Castle	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Castle	det
11	Green	Green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Castle	amod
12	Castle	Castle	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 come	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 want	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 want	cc
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 want	nsubj
16	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 want	aux
17	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 want	advmod
18	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 want	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 walk	mark
20	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 want	xcomp
21	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 walk	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 far	punct
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 far	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 far	cop
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 far	advmod
26	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 walk	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 fatiguing	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 fatiguing	cc
29	walking	walking	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 fatiguing	nsubj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 fatiguing	aux
31	so	so	ADV	_	32 fatiguing	advmod
32	fatiguing	fatigue	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 far	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 want	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	want	present	I	you			tree rules
2	come back not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here		the Green Castle	with me	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to castle=Initial_Location
3	not want	present · do-support	I				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	walk not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here		there		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	present	Castle			far property	tree rules
6	fatigue	present · progressive	walking				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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