The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 75
‘I wish you would bind me to a tree,’ exclaimed the shepherd, ‘so that my back would get straight.’
Who acts: I, you, back · What happens: wish, bind, exclaim, get · To what, where: me, shepherd · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, 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, you, back), 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 | 13 exclaimed | parataxis |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 bind | nsubj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 bind | aux |
| 6 | bind | bind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wish | ccomp |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 bind | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 tree | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 tree | det |
| 10 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bind | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 wish | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 wish | punct |
| 13 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 shepherd | det |
| 15 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 exclaimed | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 get | punct |
| 17 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 get | punct |
| 18 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 23 get | mark |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 so | fixed |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 back | nmod:poss |
| 21 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 get | nsubj |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 get | aux |
| 23 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 exclaimed | ccomp |
| 24 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 23 get | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 get | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 get | 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 | bind | would | you | me | to a tree | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent i=Patient to tree=Co-Patient | |||
| 3 | exclaim speech: express | past | the shepherd | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | get | would | my back | straight property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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