The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 76
So for all these reasons I wished to talk to the Fairy.”
Who acts: I · What happens: wish, talk
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, 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 (I), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 7 wished | advmod |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 reasons | case |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 reasons | det:predet |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 reasons | det |
| 5 | reasons | reason | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 wished | obl |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 wished | nsubj |
| 7 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 talk | mark |
| 9 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 wished | xcomp |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Fairy | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Fairy | det |
| 12 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 talk | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 wished | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 wished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | past | I | for all reasons | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | talk not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | to the Fairy | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to fairy=Co-Agent |
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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