The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 101

“Pretty little creatures,” she said, “how I wish that your cage was nearer to my room, that I might often hear you sing!”

Who acts: little creatures, cage, you · What happens: say, wish, be, hear, sing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little creatures, cage, you), 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	_	4 creatures	punct
2	Pretty	pretty	ADV	_	3 little	advmod
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 creatures	amod
4	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 said	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 creatures	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 creatures	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 wish	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 wish	punct
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	13 wish	advmod
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 wish	nsubj
13	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 nearer	mark
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 cage	nmod:poss
16	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 nearer	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 nearer	cop
18	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 wish	advcl
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 room	case
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 room	nmod:poss
21	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 nearer	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 hear	punct
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 hear	mark
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 hear	nsubj
25	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 hear	aux
26	often	often	ADV	_	27 hear	advmod
27	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 wish	conj
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 sing	nsubj
29	sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 hear	xcomp
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: express	past	little creatures		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	wish in a quote	present	little creatures = creature		vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	is in a quote	past	your cage	to my room; near property	tree rules
4	hear in a quote	might	little creatures = creature	often property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	sing speech: express in a quote	present	you		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location

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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