More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 99

So Catskin said to the cook, "Oh, how I should like to go!"

Who acts: Catskin · What happens: say, like, go · To what, where: cook · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Catskin), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 said	advmod
2	Catskin	Catskin	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 cook	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cook	det
6	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cook	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 like	punct
9	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	14 like	discourse
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 like	punct
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 like	advmod
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 like	nsubj
13	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 like	aux
14	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
15	to	to	PART	_	16 go	mark
16	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 like	xcomp
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	14 like	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: express	past	Catskin	the cook	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to cook=Recipient clause=Topic
2	like in a quote	should	Catskin		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	go not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	Catskin not said here		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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