More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 39
"Ah!" groaned the woodman, "I wish I'd a good link of black pudding here before me."
Who acts: couple · What happens: groan, wish · To what, where: woodman
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (couple), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 groaned | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 5 groaned | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 5 | groaned | groan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 woodman | det |
| 7 | woodman | woodman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 groaned | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wish | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 wish | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 wish | nsubj |
| 11 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 groaned | conj |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 'd | nsubj |
| 13 | 'd | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 wish | ccomp |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 link | det |
| 15 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 link | amod |
| 16 | link | link | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 'd | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 pudding | case |
| 18 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 pudding | amod |
| 19 | pudding | pudding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 link | nmod |
| 20 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 pudding | advmod |
| 21 | before | before | ADP | _ | 22 me | case |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 'd | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 groaned | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 groaned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | groan | past | the woodman | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent woodman=Theme | |||||
| 2 | wish in a quote | present | a couple of hours = couple | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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