The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 80
‘I wish you might find a wolf to eat you up,’ growled Fanfaronade.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: wish, find, eat up, growl · To what, where: wolf, you, Fanfaronade · Speech: someone speaks here
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, you), 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 | 15 growled | parataxis |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 find | nsubj |
| 5 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 find | aux |
| 6 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wish | ccomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 wolf | det |
| 8 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 find | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 eat | mark |
| 10 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 wolf | acl |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 eat | obj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 eat | compound:prt |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 wish | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 wish | punct |
| 15 | growled | growl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | Fanfaronade | Fanfaronade | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 growled | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 growled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | present | I | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | find | might | you | a wolf | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Topic | ||||
| 3 | eat up | to-infinitive | you not said here | you | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | ||||
| 4 | growl | past | Fanfaronade | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fanfaronade=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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