The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 116

Only I wish it were not so terribly dark and lonely here; not even a little hare!

Who acts: I, ground · What happens: wish, not be, be · To what, where: little hare

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, ground), 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	Only	only	ADV	_	3 wish	advmod
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	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 dark	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 dark	cop
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 dark	advmod
7	so	so	ADV	_	9 dark	advmod
8	terribly	terribly	ADV	_	9 dark	advmod
9	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wish	ccomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 lonely	cc
11	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 dark	conj
12	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 wish	advmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 hare	punct
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 hare	advmod
15	even	even	ADV	_	18 hare	advmod
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 hare	det
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 hare	amod
18	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wish	obl
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 wish	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wish	present	I	a little hare	here		vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	not is	past	ground			dark, terribly property	tree rules
3	be		ground not said here				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 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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