The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 62
“Oh, I wish, I do wish, I had a boat to mend,” cried the fox again, as if he had not heard.
Who acts: fox · What happens: wish, have, mend, cry, not hear · To what, where: boat · 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 (fox), 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 wish | 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 | 9 wish | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wish | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 wish | nsubj |
| 8 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 wish | aux |
| 9 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 cried | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 had | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 had | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 wish | ccomp |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 boat | det |
| 14 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 mend | mark |
| 16 | mend | mend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 boat | acl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 wish | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 wish | punct |
| 19 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 fox | det |
| 21 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 cried | obj |
| 22 | again | again | ADV | _ | 19 cried | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 heard | punct |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 29 heard | mark |
| 25 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 29 heard | mark |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 heard | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 heard | aux |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 heard | advmod |
| 29 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 cried | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish in a quote | present | the fox = fox | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | wish in a quote | present · do-support | the fox = fox | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | have in a quote | past | the fox = fox | a boat | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Patient | ||||
| 4 | mend in a quote | to-infinitive | the fox = fox not said here | a boat not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | cry speech: express | past | the fox | again | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | not hear a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | fox | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
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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