The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, sentence 83
‘I wish that Page in green to come and lead the horse, as he did when Graciosa rode it,’ said she very sharply.
Who acts: I, horse, Graciosa · What happens: wish, come, lead, do, ride, say · To what, where: Page, horse · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, 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, horse, Graciosa), 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 | _ | 3 wish | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 wish | nsubj |
| 3 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 said | ccomp |
| 4 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 Page | det |
| 5 | Page | page | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wish | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 green | case |
| 7 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wish | xcomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 come | mark |
| 9 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 green | xcomp |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 lead | cc |
| 11 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 come | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 horse | det |
| 13 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lead | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 did | punct |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 did | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 did | nsubj |
| 17 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 lead | parataxis |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 rode | advmod |
| 19 | Graciosa | Graciosa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 rode | nsubj |
| 20 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 did | advcl |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 rode | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 wish | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 wish | punct |
| 24 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 sharply | nsubj |
| 26 | very | very | ADV | _ | 27 sharply | advmod |
| 27 | sharply | sharply | ADV | _ | 24 said | ccomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | present | I | that Page | green property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot page=Theme | |||
| 2 | come | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | lead | infinitive | I not said here | the horse | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme | ||||
| 4 | do | past | horse | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | ride | past | Graciosa | page | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent it=Location | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | 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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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