More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 2, sentence 50

The more she begged and scolded, the more he shook his head; and when at last she lost patience and cried that the fairies would surely come and fetch him away, he only laughed and said he wished they _would_, for he would like one to play with.

Who acts: wind, boy, fairies · What happens: beg, scold, shake, lose, cry, come · To what, where: head, patience, boy, one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, 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 (wind, boy, fairies), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 more	det
2	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 begged	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 begged	nsubj
4	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 scolded	cc
6	scolded	scold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 begged	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 shook	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 more	det
9	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 shook	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 shook	nsubj
11	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 begged	conj
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 head	nmod:poss
13	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shook	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 last	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 last	cc
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 last	advmod
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 last	case
18	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 begged	conj
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 lost	nsubj
20	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 last	acl:relcl
21	patience	patience	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lost	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 cried	cc
23	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 lost	conj
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 come	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 fairies	det
26	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 come	nsubj
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 come	aux
28	surely	surely	ADV	_	29 come	advmod
29	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 cried	ccomp
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 fetch	cc
31	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 come	conj
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 fetch	obj
33	away	away	ADV	_	31 fetch	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 laughed	punct
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 laughed	nsubj
36	only	only	ADV	_	37 laughed	advmod
37	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 begged	conj
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 said	cc
39	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 laughed	conj
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 wished	nsubj
41	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 said	ccomp
42	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 would	nsubj
43	_	_	PUNCT	_	44 would	punct
44	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 wished	ccomp
45	_	_	PUNCT	_	41 wished	punct
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 like	punct
47	for	for	SCONJ	_	50 like	mark
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 like	nsubj
49	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 like	aux
50	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 wished	advcl
51	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	50 like	obj
52	to	to	PART	_	53 play	mark
53	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 like	xcomp
54	with	with	ADP	_	53 play	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 begged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	wind			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent
2	scold	past	wind not said here			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	shake	past	boy	boy's head		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient
4	lose	past	wind	patience		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patience=Eventuality
5	cry speech: express	past	wind not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	come	would	the fairies		surely property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	fetch away	infinitive	the fairies not said here	boy	away property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
8	laugh	past	boy			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	say speech: assert	past	boy not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
10	wish	past	boy			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
11	like	would	boy	one		tree rules
12	play not said to happen	to-infinitive	boy not said here			vn performance-26.7-1 «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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/50/