The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 2

“I wonder how it feels to be a lion,” thought the boy, after he had gone a little way; and he took out the tip of the ear from the breast of his jacket and wished with all his might.

Who acts: I, farewell, boy · What happens: wonder, feel, be, think, go, take out · To what, where: lion, little way, tip, breast · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, farewell, boy), 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 wonder	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 wonder	nsubj
3	wonder	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 thought	ccomp
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 feels	advmod
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 feels	nsubj
6	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wonder	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	10 lion	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 lion	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 lion	det
10	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 feels	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 wonder	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 wonder	punct
13	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 boy	det
15	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 thought	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 gone	punct
17	after	after	SCONJ	_	20 gone	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 gone	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 gone	aux
20	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 thought	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 way	det
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 way	amod
23	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 gone	obj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 took	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 took	cc
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 took	nsubj
27	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 thought	parataxis
28	out	out	ADP	_	27 took	compound:prt
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 tip	det
30	tip	tip	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 took	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 ear	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 ear	det
33	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 tip	nmod
34	from	from	ADP	_	36 breast	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 breast	det
36	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 took	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 jacket	case
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 jacket	nmod:poss
39	jacket	jacket	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 breast	nmod
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 wished	cc
41	wished	wish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 took	conj
42	with	with	SCONJ	_	45 might	mark
43	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	45 might	det:predet
44	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 might	nmod:poss
45	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 wished	advcl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	wonder speech: ask in a quote	present	I			vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	feel in a quote	present	farewell			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	is a in a quote	to-infinitive	farewell not said here	a lion		tree rules
4	think speech: other	past	the boy			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	go	past · perfect	boy	a little way		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme
6	take out	past	boy	the tip of the ear	the breast of boy's jacket	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent tip=Theme from breast=Initial_Location
7	wish	participle	boy not said here			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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