The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 84

I wish I'd let you do the other ear.

Who acts: I, you · What happens: wish, let, do · To what, where: you, other ear · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 wish	nsubj
2	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 let	nsubj
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 let	aux
5	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wish	ccomp
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 let	obj
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 let	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ear	det
9	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ear	amod
10	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wish	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wish	present	I		vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	let	would	I	you	tree rules
3	do	infinitive	you not said here	the other ear	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Eventuality

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: «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Project Gutenberg book 23661 (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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