The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 98

How I should like to have some!

Who acts: I · What happens: like, have · To what, where: some

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13. 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 like	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 like	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 like	aux
4	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 have	mark
6	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 like	xcomp
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 have	obj
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	should	I						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	have not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	some					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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