The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 41

Hans wished to set off at once, as soon as his father would make a staff for him of such a kind as he wanted.

Who acts: Hans, father · What happens: wish, set off, make, want · To what, where: staff

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hans, father), 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	Hans	han	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wished	nsubj
2	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 set	mark
4	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wished	xcomp
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 set	compound:prt
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 once	case
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 set	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 make	punct
9	as	as	ADV	_	10 soon	advmod
10	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 make	advmod
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 make	mark
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 father	nmod:poss
13	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 make	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 make	aux
15	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wished	parataxis
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 staff	det
17	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 make	obj
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 staff	nmod
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 kind	case
21	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	23 kind	det:predet
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 kind	det
23	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 staff	nmod
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 wanted	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 wanted	nsubj
26	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 make	advcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wish	past	Hans			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	set off not said to happen	to-infinitive	Hans not said here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	make	would	Hans's father	a staff of such kind	for Hans; soon property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent staff=Product for he=Beneficiary
4	want	past	father			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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