The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 22

“The only thing I wish for is to see you come home safely,” she answered.

Who acts: Beauty, only thing · What happens: wish, be, come, answer · To what, where: only thing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Beauty, only thing), 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	_	10 see	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 thing	det
3	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thing	amod
4	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 see	nsubj
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 wish	nsubj
6	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 thing	acl:relcl
7	for	for	ADP	_	6 wish	obl
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 see	cop
9	to	to	PART	_	10 see	mark
10	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 answered	ccomp
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 see	obj
12	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 see	xcomp
13	home	home	ADV	_	12 come	advmod
14	safely	safely	ADV	_	12 come	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 see	punct
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 see	punct
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 answered	nsubj
18	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wish in a quote	present	Beauty	the only thing not said here		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme
2	is in a quote	present	the only thing		see property	tree rules
3	come in a quote	infinitive	the only thing not said here		home, safely property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	answer speech: assert	past	Beauty			tree rules

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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