Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, sentence 54
"Oh, I wish she would!" said the child, who was quite unhappy about it. "
Who acts: child · What happens: wish, say, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child), 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 wish | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 wish | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 wish | nsubj |
| 5 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 would | nsubj |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 wish | ccomp |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 wish | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 wish | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 child | det |
| 12 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 unhappy | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 unhappy | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 unhappy | cop |
| 16 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 17 unhappy | advmod |
| 17 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 child | acl:relcl |
| 18 | about | about | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 unhappy | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish in a quote | present | the child = child | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | the child | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the child | about pardon; unhappy property | tree rules |
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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