The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 40
“I do wish I had not taken that last spoonful of broth; I am sure something was wrong with it.”
Who acts: giant, something · What happens: do, not take, be · To what, where: wish, last spoonful · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (giant, something), 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 do | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 do | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 do | obj |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 taken | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 taken | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 taken | advmod |
| 8 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 wish | acl:relcl |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 spoonful | det |
| 10 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 spoonful | amod |
| 11 | spoonful | spoonful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 taken | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 broth | case |
| 13 | broth | broth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 spoonful | nmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 sure | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 sure | nsubj |
| 16 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 sure | cop |
| 17 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 do | conj |
| 18 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 20 wrong | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 wrong | cop |
| 20 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 sure | ccomp |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 wrong | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | present | giant | wish | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | not take in a quote | past · perfect | giant | that last spoonful of broth | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spoonful=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | giant | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | past | something | with broth; wrong property | tree rules |
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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