The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 113

One day the man said to his wife, ‘I wonder, now, whether our parish clerk could teach Peter to talk; in that case we could not do better than adopt him as our son, and let him inherit all that we possess.’

Who acts: man, I, parish clerk, we, Peter · What happens: say, wonder, teach, talk, not do, adopt · To what, where: Peter, case · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, I, parish clerk, we), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 wife	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 wife	nmod:poss
8	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 wonder	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 wonder	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 wonder	nsubj
12	wonder	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 wonder	punct
14	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 wonder	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 teach	punct
16	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	21 teach	mark
17	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 clerk	nmod:poss
18	parish	parish	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 clerk	compound
19	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 teach	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 teach	aux
21	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 wonder	conj
22	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 teach	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 talk	mark
24	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 teach	xcomp
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 do	punct
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 case	case
27	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 case	det
28	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 do	obl
29	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 do	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 do	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 do	advmod
32	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
33	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	32 do	advmod
34	than	than	SCONJ	_	35 adopt	mark
35	adopt	adopt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 do	advcl
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 adopt	obj
37	as	as	ADP	_	39 son	case
38	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 son	nmod:poss
39	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 adopt	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 let	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 let	cc
42	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
43	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 let	obj
44	inherit	inherit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 let	xcomp
45	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	44 inherit	advmod
46	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	48 possess	obj
47	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	48 possess	nsubj
48	possess	possess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 all	acl:relcl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	42 let	punct
50	’	'	PUNCT	_	42 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the man				day	to Peter's wife	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to wife=Experiencer clause=Topic
2	wonder speech: ask	present	I				now		vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	teach speech: other	could	our parish clerk		Peter				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent peter=Recipient clause=Topic
4	talk	to-infinitive	our parish clerk not said here						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not do	could	we			that case		well property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	adopt	infinitive	we not said here	Peter				as our son	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme as son=Attribute
7	let	infinitive		Peter					tree rules
8	inherit	infinitive	Peter not said here						vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
9	possess	present	we						vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot that=Theme

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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