The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 37

I wish to set them a task which requires sharp wits and clever hands, and I want them to try which of them can best make a kaftan and pair of trousers.”

Who acts: I, task, things, best · What happens: wish, set, require, want, try, make · To what, where: things, sharp wits, kaftan

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, task, things, best), 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	to	to	PART	_	4 set	mark
4	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wish	xcomp
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 set	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 task	det
7	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 set	obj
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 requires	nsubj
9	requires	require	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 task	acl:relcl
10	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 wits	amod
11	wits	wit	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 requires	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 hands	cc
13	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 hands	amod
14	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 wits	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 want	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 want	cc
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 want	nsubj
18	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 wish	conj
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 want	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 try	mark
21	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 want	xcomp
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 make	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 them	case
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 which	obl
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 make	aux
26	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	27 make	nsubj
27	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 try	ccomp
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 kaftan	det
29	kaftan	kaftan	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 make	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 pair	cc
31	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 kaftan	conj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 trousers	case
33	trousers	trousers	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 pair	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wish	punct
35	”	"	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	set not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	things = thing	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent they=Theme task=Destination
3	require	present	a task	sharp wits and clever hands	vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wit=Precondition
4	want	present	I	things = thing	tree rules
5	try not said to happen	to-infinitive	things = thing not said here		vn try-61.1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	make	can	best	a kaftan and pair of trousers	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset which=Beneficiary kaftan=Product

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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