The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 106

I wish to Heaven they were here, and then you would see them.’

Who acts: I, Heavens, you · What happens: wish, be, see · To what, where: Heaven, Heavens · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Heavens, 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	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	to	to	ADP	_	4 Heaven	case
4	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 wish	obl
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 here	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 here	cop
7	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 wish	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 see	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 see	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 see	advmod
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 see	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 see	aux
13	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wish	conj
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 see	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wish	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 wish	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	wish	present	I		Heaven			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	is	past	Heavens = heaven				here property	tree rules
3	see	would	you	Heavens = heaven		then		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

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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