The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 46

‘I wanted to get some fine boats.’

Who acts: I · What happens: want, get · To what, where: fine boats

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 wanted	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 get	mark
5	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wanted	xcomp
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 boats	det
7	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 boats	amod
8	boats	boat	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 get	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wanted	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 wanted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	I						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	get not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	some fine boats					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boat=Stimulus

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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