The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 27
“I am Tree Comber,” he answered proudly; “and the greatest wish of my life is to wrestle with Shepherd Paul.”
Who acts: man, greatest wish, life · What happens: be, answer, wish · To what, where: Tree Comber · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, greatest wish, life), 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 | _ | 5 Comber | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 Comber | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Comber | cop |
| 4 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Comber | compound |
| 5 | Comber | comber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 answered | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Comber | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Comber | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 answered | nsubj |
| 9 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | proudly | proudly | ADV | _ | 9 answered | advmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 wish | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 wish | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 wish | det |
| 15 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 wish | amod |
| 16 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 wrestle | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 life | case |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 life | nmod:poss |
| 19 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wish | nmod |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 wrestle | cop |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 wrestle | mark |
| 22 | wrestle | wrestle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 answered | ccomp |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 Paul | case |
| 24 | Shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Paul | compound |
| 25 | Paul | Paul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 wrestle | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 wrestle | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 wrestle | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | man | Tree Comber | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | man | proudly property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | the greatest wish of my life | with Shepherd Paul; wrestle property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | wish in a quote | my life | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: of=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: «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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