The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 70

I should have liked to see him too, that I should,” said Cinderlad, who was as usual sitting by the chimney among the cinders.

Who acts: I, Cinderlad · What happens: like, see, say, be · To what, where: third · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess on the Glass Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Cinderlad), 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	4 liked	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 liked	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 liked	aux
4	liked	like	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 see	mark
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 liked	xcomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 see	obj
8	too	too	ADV	_	6 see	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 should	mark
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 should	nsubj
12	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 said	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 should	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 should	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 liked	conj
16	Cinderlad	Cinderlad	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 said	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sitting	punct
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 sitting	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 sitting	cop
20	as	as	ADP	_	22 sitting	case
21	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 sitting	amod
22	sitting	sitting	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 Cinderlad	appos
23	by	by	ADP	_	25 chimney	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 chimney	det
25	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sitting	nmod
26	among	among	ADP	_	28 cinders	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 cinders	det
28	cinders	cinder	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 chimney	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 liked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	like	should · perfect	I			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	third		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Cinderlad			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	past	Cinderlad		as usual sitting; by the chimney among the cinders	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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