The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, sentence 97

Poor Graciosa wished miserably that Percinet could only know what was happening and come to rescue her.

Who acts: Poor Graciosa, Percinet · What happens: wish, know, happen, come, rescue · To what, where: Percinet · 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 (Poor Graciosa, Percinet), 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	Poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Graciosa	amod
2	Graciosa	Graciosa	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 wished	nsubj
3	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	miserably	miserably	ADV	_	3 wished	advmod
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 know	mark
6	Percinet	Percinet	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 know	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 know	aux
8	only	only	ADV	_	9 know	advmod
9	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wished	advcl
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 happening	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 happening	aux
12	happening	happen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 know	ccomp
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 come	cc
14	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 know	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 rescue	mark
16	rescue	rescue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 come	advcl
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 rescue	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wish	past	Poor Graciosa		miserably property	vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	know	could	Percinet			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	happen	past · progressive				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come	infinitive	Percinet not said here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	rescue	to-infinitive	Percinet not said here	Percinet		vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

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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