--- title: ‘I don’t want to be a great lady, I only want to be the wife of Deni… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘I don’t want to be a great lady, I only want to be the wife of Denis,’ she replied, throwing off his hand and running to the ditch which divided the road from the cornfield, where he hoped to hide. Who acts: I, Denis, ditch, Peasant. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Denis, ditch, Peasant), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg3454:33:10 # text = ‘I don’t want to be a great lady, I only want to be the wife of Denis,’ she replied, throwing off his hand and running to the ditch which divided the road from the cornfield, where he hoped to hide. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 4 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 want want VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 7 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 10 cop _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 lady lady NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 only only ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 16 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 18 cop _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 xcomp _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 Denis Denis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ’ ' CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 throwing throw VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 advcl _ _ 27 off off ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ _ 28 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 running run VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 conj _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 ditch ditch NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 35 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 36 nsubj _ _ 36 divided divide VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 acl:relcl _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 39 from from ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 cornfield cornfield NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 43 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 45 advmod _ _ 44 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 45 hoped hope VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 acl _ _ 46 to to PART TO _ 47 mark _ _ 47 hide hide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 45 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **want** | present · do-support | I | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 2 | **is a** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | a great lady | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **want** | present | I | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 4 | **is a** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | the wife | | | | of Denis | tree rules | | 5 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Denis | | | | | | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **throw off** | gerund | Denis *not said here* | Peasant's hand | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | | 7 | **run** | gerund | Denis *not said here* | | | | | to the ditch *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to ditch=Result | | 8 | **divide** | past | the ditch | the road | | | | from the cornfield | vn separate-23.1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent road=Patient from cornfield=Co-Patient | | 9 | **hope** | past | Peasant | | | | | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 10 | **hide** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Peasant *not said here* | | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/33/9/) - next →: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/33/11/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/33/)