The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 82

“Well, I was dull, and wanted someone to play with me,” he said at last, in sulky voice, “and I challenged the rock to catch me.

Who acts: Wolverine · What happens: be, want, play, say, challenge, catch · To what, where: someone, last, rock, Wolverine · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, 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 (Wolverine), 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	_	9 wanted	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	6 dull	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 dull	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dull	cop
6	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 wanted	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 wanted	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 wanted	cc
9	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 said	ccomp
10	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 wanted	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 play	mark
12	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 someone	acl
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 me	case
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 play	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 wanted	punct
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 wanted	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 said	nsubj
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 last	case
20	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 said	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 voice	punct
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 voice	case
23	sulky	sulky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 voice	amod
24	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 challenged	punct
26	“	"	PUNCT	_	29 challenged	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 challenged	cc
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 challenged	nsubj
29	challenged	challenge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 said	parataxis
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 rock	det
31	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 challenged	obj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 catch	mark
33	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 challenged	advcl
34	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 catch	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	past	Wolverine			dull property	tree rules
2	want in a quote	past		someone			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot someone=Theme
3	play in a quote	to-infinitive		someone not said here		with Wolverine	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with i=Co-Agent
4	say speech: assert	past	Wolverine		last	in sulky voice	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	challenge in a quote	past	Wolverine	the rock			tree rules
6	catch in a quote	to-infinitive	Wolverine not said here	Wolverine			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme

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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