The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Followed the King, Who Went Up First"], sentence 44

"I wish I could----, I wish I could--;" she was not able to speak the rest, being interrupted by her tears and sobbing.

Who acts: rest, godmother, I · What happens: wish, not be, speak, interrupt · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Followed the King, Who Went Up First"]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rest, godmother, 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	_	3 wish	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 wish	nsubj
3	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 wish	advcl
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 could	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 wish	ccomp
6	----	----	PUNCT	_	3 wish	punct
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 wish	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 wish	nsubj
9	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 could	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 wish	ccomp
12	--	--	PUNCT	_	11 could	punct
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 able	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 able	punct
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 able	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 able	cop
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 able	advmod
18	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 wish	parataxis
19	to	to	PART	_	20 speak	mark
20	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 able	xcomp
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 rest	det
22	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 speak	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 interrupted	punct
24	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 interrupted	aux:pass
25	interrupted	interrupt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 wish	conj
26	by	by	ADP	_	28 tears	case
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 tears	nmod:poss
28	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 interrupted	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 sobbing	cc
30	sobbing	sobbing	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 tears	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 wish	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	wish in a quote	present	the rest = rest		vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	wish in a quote	present	the rest = rest		vn wish-62 «NP V that S»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	not is	past	godmother	able property	tree rules
4	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	the rest		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	interrupt	gerund · passive	I not said here	by godmother's tears and sobbing	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: «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (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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