Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 106

He wished very much to smoke a pipe, as it would be the last pipe he should ever smoke in the world.

Who acts: request, pipe · What happens: wish, smoke, be · To what, where: pipe, last pipe, world

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (request, pipe), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wished	nsubj
2	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADV	_	2 wished	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 smoke	mark
6	smoke	smoke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wished	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 pipe	det
8	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 smoke	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 pipe	punct
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 pipe	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 pipe	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 pipe	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 pipe	cop
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 pipe	det
15	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 pipe	amod
16	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 smoke	obl
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 smoke	nsubj
18	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 smoke	aux
19	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	20 smoke	advmod
20	smoke	smoke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 pipe	acl:relcl
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 world	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 world	det
23	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 smoke	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	wish	past	request				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	smoke	to-infinitive	request not said here	a pipe			vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent pipe=Source
3	is a	would	pipe	the last pipe			tree rules
4	smoke	should	request	the last pipe not said here	the world	ever	vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent pipe=Source

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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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