The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 23

“I am in want of somebody who can bake my bread when I am tired of fruit, and who knows how to make cocoanut cakes.”

Who acts: monkey, want · What happens: be, bake, know, make · To what, where: want, bread, cocoanut cakes · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (monkey, want), 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 want	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 want	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 want	cop
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 want	case
5	want	want	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 somebody	case
7	somebody	somebody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 want	nmod
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 bake	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 bake	aux
10	bake	bake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 want	parataxis
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 bread	nmod:poss
12	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bake	obj
13	when	when	SCONJ	_	16 tired	mark
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 tired	nsubj
15	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 tired	cop
16	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bake	advcl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 fruit	case
18	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tired	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 knows	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 knows	cc
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 knows	nsubj
22	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 bake	conj
23	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	25 make	advmod
24	to	to	PART	_	25 make	mark
25	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 knows	ccomp
26	cocoanut	cocoanut	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 cakes	compound
27	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 make	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 want	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	the monkey = monkey		want	of somebody	tree rules
2	bake in a quote	can	want	my bread			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Product
3	is in a quote	present	the monkey = monkey			of fruit; tired property	tree rules
4	know in a quote	present					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	make in a quote	to-infinitive		cocoanut cakes			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cake=Product

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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