The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 39

I should like to do something to show how grateful I am.'

Who acts: I · What happens: like, do, show, be · To what, where: something · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12. 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 like	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 like	aux
3	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 do	mark
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 like	xcomp
6	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 do	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 show	mark
8	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 something	acl
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 grateful	advmod
10	grateful	grateful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 show	ccomp
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 grateful	nsubj
12	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 grateful	cop
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 like	punct
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	like	should	I			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	something		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality
3	show	to-infinitive	I not said here	something not said here		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	I		grateful 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: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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