The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 2
I wish we had a black pudding at hand."
Who acts: I, we · What happens: wish, have · To what, where: black pudding, hand · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Towards Her"]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, we), 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 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wish | ccomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 pudding | det |
| 6 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 pudding | amod |
| 7 | pudding | pudding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 hand | case |
| 9 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pudding | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wish | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | present | I | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have | past | we | a black pudding | hand | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pudding=Patient |
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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