More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 84
The one side gives good light, I wish the other did!"
Who acts: one side, I, other · What happens: give, wish, do · To what, where: good light · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one side, I, other), 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 | 3 side | det |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 side | nummod |
| 3 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gives | nsubj |
| 4 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 light | amod |
| 6 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gives | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 wish | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 wish | nsubj |
| 9 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 gives | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 other | det |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 did | nsubj |
| 12 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 wish | ccomp |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 gives | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 gives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | the one side | good light | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wish | present | I | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | do | past | the other | vn act-114-1 «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.
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