Just so stories, The Butterfly That Stamped, sentence 90

‘I should very much like to see it done.

Who acts: I · What happens: like, see, do · To what, where: foot

This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Butterfly That Stamped. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	_	6 like	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 like	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 like	aux
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 like	advmod
6	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 see	mark
8	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 like	xcomp
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 see	obj
10	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 like	xcomp
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	like	should	I		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	foot	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
3	do not said to happen	participle	I not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, Project Gutenberg book 2781 (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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