The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 21

I only want someone who will see how I strike the wolf and how the dust flies out of his skin.’

Who acts: I, dust · What happens: want, see, strike, fly out · To what, where: someone, wolf, skin · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, dust), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 want	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 want	advmod
3	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 want	obj
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 see	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 see	aux
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 someone	acl:relcl
8	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 strike	advmod
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 strike	nsubj
10	strike	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 see	ccomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wolf	det
12	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 strike	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 flies	cc
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	17 flies	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 dust	det
16	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 flies	nsubj
17	flies	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 strike	conj
18	out	out	ADP	_	21 skin	case
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 skin	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 skin	nmod:poss
21	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 flies	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 want	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	want	present	I	someone	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot someone=Theme
2	see	future			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	strike	present	I	the wolf	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Patient
4	fly out	present	the dust	dust's skin	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location skin=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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