The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, sentence 54
In fact, I had a delicious breakfast, though I do not like to be waited upon so quickly.
Who acts: I · What happens: have, not like, wait · To what, where: delicious breakfast, fact
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 fact | case |
| 2 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 fact | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 breakfast | det |
| 7 | delicious | delicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 breakfast | amod |
| 8 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 like | punct |
| 10 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 14 like | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 like | nsubj |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 like | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 like | advmod |
| 14 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 had | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 waited | mark |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 waited | aux:pass |
| 17 | waited | wait | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 like | xcomp |
| 18 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 17 waited | case |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 quickly | advmod |
| 20 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 17 waited | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | I | a delicious breakfast | fact | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breakfast=Patient | |||
| 2 | not like | present · do-support | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | wait not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | I not said here | quickly property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V» |
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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