The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 2

“I wish I was at the end of the world,” he said, shutting his eyes, and when he opened them he was standing in a street full of marble palaces.

Who acts: I, he · What happens: wish, be, say, shut, stand · To what, where: end, eyes, street · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, he), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	3 wish	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 wish	nsubj
3	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 said	ccomp
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 end	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 end	cop
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 end	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 end	det
8	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wish	ccomp
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 world	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 world	det
11	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 end	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 wish	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 wish	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 shutting	punct
17	shutting	shut	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 said	advcl
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 eyes	nmod:poss
19	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 shutting	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 standing	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 standing	cc
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 opened	advmod
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 opened	nsubj
24	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 standing	aux
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 opened	obj
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 standing	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 standing	aux
28	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 said	advcl
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 street	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 street	det
31	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 standing	obl
32	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 standing	xcomp
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 palaces	case
34	marble	marble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 palaces	amod
35	palaces	palace	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 full	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wish in a quote	present	I					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	is in a quote	past	I			at the end	of the world	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	he					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	shut	gerund	he not said here	his eyes				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
5	stand	past · progressive	he		a street		full property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in street=Location

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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