The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 30

He could say anything he liked now, so he said to-day that he longed to see his parents again.

Who acts: man · What happens: say, like, long, see · To what, where: anything, parents · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 say	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 say	aux
3	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 say	obj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 liked	nsubj
6	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 anything	acl:relcl
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 liked	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	11 said	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 say	conj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 day	case
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 to	punct
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obl
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 longed	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 longed	nsubj
17	longed	long	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	advcl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 see	mark
19	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 longed	xcomp
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 parents	nmod:poss
21	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 see	obj
22	again	again	ADV	_	19 see	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	could	man	anything		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=Topic
2	like	past	man		now	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	say speech: assert	past	man		day	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	long	past	man			vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	man not said here	man's parents	again	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer parent=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 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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