The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 62

They did not wish to kill him--though, perhaps, they would not have been sorry if they had heard he was dead--but merely wished to remind him that he was after all only a child, not half so old and wise as they.

Who acts: brothers, envy · What happens: not wish, kill, not have, be, hear, wish · To what, where: envy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, envy), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wish	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wish	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 wish	advmod
4	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 kill	mark
6	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wish	xcomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 kill	obj
8	--	--	PUNCT	_	14 would	punct
9	though	though	ADV	_	14 would	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 perhaps	punct
11	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	14 would	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 would	punct
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 would	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 wish	parataxis
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 have	advmod
16	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 would	xcomp
17	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 sorry	cop
18	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 have	xcomp
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 heard	mark
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 heard	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 heard	aux
22	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 sorry	advcl
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 dead	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 dead	cop
25	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 heard	ccomp
26	--	--	PUNCT	_	29 wished	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 wished	cc
28	merely	merely	ADV	_	29 wished	advmod
29	wished	wish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 heard	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 remind	mark
31	remind	remind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 wished	advcl
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 remind	iobj
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 child	mark
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 child	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 child	cop
36	after	after	ADP	_	40 child	case
37	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	40 child	det:predet
38	only	only	ADV	_	40 child	advmod
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 child	det
40	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 remind	ccomp
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 half	punct
42	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	43 half	advmod
43	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	40 child	appos
44	so	so	ADV	_	45 old	advmod
45	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 half	amod
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 wise	cc
47	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 old	conj
48	as	as	ADP	_	49 they	case
49	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 remind	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wish	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	not wish	past · do-support	brothers = brother					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	kill not said to happen	to-infinitive	brothers = brother not said here	envy				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	not have	infinitive	brothers = brother not said here					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is	participle	brothers = brother not said here				sorry property	tree rules
5	hear a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	brothers = brother					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
6	is	past	envy				dead property	tree rules
7	wish	participle	brothers = brother not said here				merely property	vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
8	remind speech: other	to-infinitive	brothers = brother not said here		envy		as brothers = brother	vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
9	is	past	envy			after all child		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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