The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 93

And I wish you would be quick, or we may be too late to save the sultan.’

Who acts: I, you, we · What happens: wish, be, save · To what, where: sultan · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, we), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 wish	cc
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 wish	nsubj
3	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 quick	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 quick	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 quick	cop
7	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wish	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 late	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 late	cc
10	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 late	nsubj
11	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 late	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 late	cop
13	too	too	ADV	_	14 late	advmod
14	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wish	parataxis
15	to	to	PART	_	16 save	mark
16	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 late	xcomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sultan	det
18	sultan	sultan	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 save	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wish	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 wish	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wish	present	I			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	is	would	you		quick property	tree rules
3	is	may	we		late property	tree rules
4	save	to-infinitive	we not said here	the sultan		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sultan=Theme

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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