The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 48

I should like to tell you of a conversation we had the last time I ever saw him.”

Who acts: I, we · What happens: like, tell, have, see · To what, where: you, conversation, friend · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 like	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 like	aux
3	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 tell	mark
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 like	xcomp
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 tell	iobj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 conversation	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 conversation	det
9	conversation	conversation	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	obl
10	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 conversation	acl:relcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 time	det
13	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 time	amod
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	obj
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 saw	nsubj
16	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	17 saw	advmod
17	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 time	acl:relcl
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 saw	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 like	punct
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	like	should	I					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	tell speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here		you		of a conversation	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	have	past	we	a conversation not said here		time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conversation=Patient
4	see	past	I	friend		ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=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 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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