The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 69

'But I was thinking of you all the time,' said he at the end, 'and wishing that I could bring you back something you would like.

Who acts: I, man, you · What happens: think, say, wish, bring back, like · To what, where: end, something, you · Speech: someone speaks here

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, man, you), 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	_	5 thinking	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 thinking	cc
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 thinking	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thinking	aux
5	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 said	ccomp
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 you	case
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 thinking	obl
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 time	det:predet
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 time	det
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thinking	obl:unmarked
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 thinking	punct
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 thinking	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 end	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 end	det
17	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 end	punct
19	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 end	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 wishing	cc
21	wishing	wish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 said	advcl
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 bring	mark
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 bring	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 bring	aux
25	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 wishing	ccomp
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 bring	obj
27	back	back	ADV	_	25 bring	advmod
28	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	25 bring	obj
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 like	nsubj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 like	aux
31	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 something	acl:relcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past · progressive	I			time	of you	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	man			at the end		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	wish	gerund	man not said here					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	bring back	could	I	something	you			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination something=Theme
5	like	would	you					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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