The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 77
I wish with all my heart that you were back in your dark tower again.’
Who acts: I, that · What happens: wish, be · To what, where: dark tower
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, that), 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 | 2 wish | nsubj |
| 2 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 heart | case |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 heart | det:predet |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 heart | nmod:poss |
| 6 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wish | obl |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 tower | nsubj |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 tower | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 tower | cop |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 tower | advmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 tower | case |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 tower | nmod:poss |
| 13 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 tower | amod |
| 14 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 heart | nmod |
| 15 | again | again | ADV | _ | 14 tower | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wish | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | present | I | with my heart | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | is | past | that | your dark tower | again | 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 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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