The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 55

'I have no particular wish to sell them myself,' answered the ogre, with equal indifference. '

Who acts: I · What happens: have, sell, answer · To what, where: particular wish, ladies, ogre

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. 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	_	3 have	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 wish	det
5	particular	particular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wish	amod
6	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 sell	mark
8	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 wish	acl
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sell	obj
10	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	8 sell	obl:unmarked
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 answered	punct
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 answered	punct
13	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 have	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 ogre	det
15	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 answered	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 indifference	punct
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 indifference	case
18	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 indifference	amod
19	indifference	indifference	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ogre	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
21	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	I	no particular wish		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Patient
2	sell	to-infinitive	I not said here	ladies = lady	myself obl:unmarked	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	answer speech: assert	past		the ogre and equal indifference		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent ogre=Eventuality

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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