More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, sentence 13

Now, how could it have known that I was just _terrible_ wanting something to hold my door open with?

Who acts: I, something · What happens: know, be, want, hold · To what, where: shoulder, something, door

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, something), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 known	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 known	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 known	advmod
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 known	aux
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 known	nsubj:pass
6	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 known	aux
7	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 terrible	mark
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 terrible	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 terrible	cop
11	just	just	ADV	_	13 terrible	advmod
12	_	_	PUNCT	_	13 terrible	punct
13	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 known	xcomp
14	_	_	PUNCT	_	15 wanting	punct
15	wanting	want	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 terrible	advcl
16	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	15 wanting	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 hold	mark
18	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 wanting	xcomp
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 door	nmod:poss
20	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hold	obj
21	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 hold	xcomp
22	with	with	ADP	_	18 hold	obl
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 known	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	know	could · perfect · passive		shoulder	now		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
2	is	past	I			terrible property	tree rules
3	want	gerund	I not said here	something			tree rules
4	hold not said to happen	to-infinitive	something not said here	my door		open property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Theme

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.

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