The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 32

He wished he might stay were he was for ever, he was so comfortable and happy, away from everyone, with nobody to bite him and tell him how ugly he was.

Who acts: rest, nobody · What happens: wish, stay, be, bite, tell · To what, where: rest · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rest, nobody), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wished	nsubj
2	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stay	nsubj
4	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 stay	aux
5	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wished	ccomp
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 ever	cop
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 ever	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 ever	cop
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 ever	case
10	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 stay	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 comfortable	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 comfortable	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 comfortable	cop
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 comfortable	advmod
15	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stay	advcl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 happy	cc
17	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 comfortable	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 away	punct
19	away	away	ADV	_	5 stay	advmod
20	from	from	ADP	_	21 everyone	case
21	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	19 away	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 bite	punct
23	with	with	SCONJ	_	26 bite	mark
24	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	26 bite	nsubj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 bite	mark
26	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 stay	conj
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 bite	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 tell	cc
29	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 bite	conj
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 tell	iobj
31	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	32 ugly	advmod
32	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 tell	ccomp
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 ugly	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 ugly	cop
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	wish	past	rest				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	stay	might	rest			away property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	rest			ever property	tree rules
4	is	past	rest			comfortable property	tree rules
5	be		rest not said here				tree rules
6	bite	to-infinitive	nobody	rest			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
7	tell speech: assert	infinitive	nobody not said here		rest		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
8	is	past	rest			ugly property	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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