The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 20

'I want to fish too,' cried the wolf.

Who acts: I · What happens: want, fish, cry · To what, where: wolf

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. 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 want	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 want	nsubj
3	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 cried	advcl
4	to	to	PART	_	5 fish	mark
5	fish	fish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 want	xcomp
6	too	too	ADV	_	5 fish	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 want	punct
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 want	punct
9	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wolf	det
11	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cried	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	want	present	I		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	fish not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	cry speech: express	past		the wolf	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Topic

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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