The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 60

“Oh, I wish, I wish, I had a boat to mend too!” he cried, sitting up on his hind-legs and looking into the man’s face.

Who acts: man · What happens: wish, have, mend, cry, sit up, look · To what, where: boat, hind legs · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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	_	11 had	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	5 wish	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 wish	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 wish	nsubj
5	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 had	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wish	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 wish	nsubj
8	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 wish	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 wish	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 cried	advcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 boat	det
13	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 mend	mark
15	mend	mend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 boat	acl
16	too	too	ADV	_	15 mend	advmod
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 had	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 had	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 cried	nsubj
20	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sitting	punct
22	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 cried	xcomp
23	up	up	ADP	_	22 sitting	compound:prt
24	on	on	ADP	_	28 legs	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 legs	nmod:poss
26	hind	hind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 legs	amod
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 hind	punct
28	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 sitting	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 looking	cc
30	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 sitting	conj
31	into	into	ADP	_	35 face	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 man	det
33	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 face	nmod:poss
34	’s	's	PART	_	33 man	case
35	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 looking	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wish in a quote	present	man				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	wish in a quote	present	man				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	have in a quote	past	man	a boat			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Patient
4	mend in a quote	to-infinitive	man not said here	a boat not said here			tree rules
5	cry speech: express	past	man				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	sit up	gerund	man not said here		man's hind legs		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=Location
7	look	gerund	man not said here			into the man's face	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into face=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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