The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 99
'I wish you would leave me alone!' she answered crossly. '
Who acts: I, you, wife · What happens: wish, leave, answer · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, wife), 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 wish | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 wish | nsubj |
| 3 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 leave | nsubj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 leave | aux |
| 6 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wish | ccomp |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 leave | obj |
| 8 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 6 leave | advmod |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 wish | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 wish | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 answered | nsubj |
| 12 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wish | parataxis |
| 13 | crossly | crossly | ADV | _ | 12 answered | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wish | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 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 | leave | would | you | me | alone property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | wife | crossly property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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