The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 86

“Oh, how I should have liked to see him too!” said Cinderlad.

Who acts: Cinderlad · What happens: like, see, say · To what, where: brother · 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 (Cinderlad), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg503:3612): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 liked	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	8 liked	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 liked	advmod
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 liked	nsubj
6	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 liked	aux
7	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 liked	aux
8	liked	like	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 said	ccomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 see	mark
10	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 liked	xcomp
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 see	obj
12	too	too	ADV	_	10 see	advmod
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 liked	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 liked	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	Cinderlad	Cinderlad	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 said	nsubj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	like in a quote	should · perfect	Cinderlad		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	see not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	Cinderlad not said here	brother	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3	say speech: express	past	Cinderlad		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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