Celtic Fairy Tales, The Tale of Ivan, sentence 15
But Ivan would not stay longer, but wanted to go back to his wife.
Who acts: Ivan · What happens: not stay, want, go back
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Tale of Ivan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ivan), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 stay | cc |
| 2 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 stay | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 stay | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 stay | advmod |
| 5 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 stay | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 wanted | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 wanted | cc |
| 9 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stay | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 go | mark |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 wanted | xcomp |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 go | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 wife | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 wife | nmod:poss |
| 15 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 go | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not stay | would | Ivan | long property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | want | past | Ivan not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go back not said to happen | to-infinitive | Ivan not said here | to Ivan's wife result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to wife=Result |
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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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