The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 88
“Oh, all right; only I wish you had brought a bird with you,” answered the fox.
Who acts: fox, you · What happens: wish, bring, answer · To what, where: bird · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fox, you), 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 | _ | 5 right | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 right | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 5 right | advmod |
| 5 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 answered | ccomp |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 wish | punct |
| 7 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 wish | advmod |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 wish | nsubj |
| 9 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 right | conj |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 brought | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 brought | aux |
| 12 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 wish | ccomp |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 bird | det |
| 14 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 brought | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 you | case |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 brought | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 right | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 right | punct |
| 19 | answered | answer | 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 answered | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 answered | 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 clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | bring in a quote | past · perfect | you | a bird | with you | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument bird=Destination | |||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | the fox | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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