The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 92
And pray, why do you want to see the King, my little kitchen-maid?
Who acts: you · What happens: pray, want, see · To what, where: King
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, 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 (you), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 pray | cc |
| 2 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 want | punct |
| 4 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 want | advmod |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 want | aux |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 want | nsubj |
| 7 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 pray | conj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 see | mark |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 want | xcomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 King | det |
| 11 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 see | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 maid | punct |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 maid | nmod:poss |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 maid | amod |
| 15 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 maid | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 kitchen | punct |
| 17 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 King | acl:relcl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 pray | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pray | imperative | you not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | want | present · do-support | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | the King | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer king=Stimulus |
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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