The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 36

I wish we had a few Manticoras here now.

Who acts: I, we · What happens: wish, have · To what, where: few Manticoras · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, we), 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	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wish	ccomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 Manticoras	det
6	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Manticoras	amod
7	Manticoras	Manticoras	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
8	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 had	advmod
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 had	advmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wish	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wish	present	I						vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	have	past	we	a few Manticoras		here	now		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manticoras=Patient

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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