More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 48

Then the woodman saw that if he wished, he must need wish in a hurry; and wish he did, that the black pudding might come off his nose.

Who acts: woodman, black pudding · What happens: see, wish, need, do, come off · To what, where: wish, hurry, nose · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (woodman, black pudding), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 saw	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 woodman	det
3	woodman	woodman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 need	mark
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 wished	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 wished	nsubj
8	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 need	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wished	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 need	nsubj
11	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 need	aux
12	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 saw	ccomp
13	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 need	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 hurry	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 hurry	det
16	hurry	hurry	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 need	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 wish	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 wish	cc
19	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	parataxis
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 did	nsubj
21	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 wish	ccomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 come	punct
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 come	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 pudding	det
25	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 pudding	amod
26	pudding	pudding	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 come	nsubj
27	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 come	aux
28	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 wish	conj
29	off	off	ADP	_	28 come	compound:prt
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 nose	nmod:poss
31	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 come	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	see	past	the woodman			then	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	wish a condition, not said to happen	past	woodman				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	need	must	woodman	wish	a hurry		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot wish=Theme
4	wish	present					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	do	past	woodman				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	come off	might	the black pudding	woodman's nose			tree rules

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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