The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 40
Shall we wish that her clothes may give way, and that she should be dashed to the ground?’
Who acts: Shall, clothes · What happens: wish, give, dash · To what, where: way, woman · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Shall, clothes), 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 | Shall | shall | X | _ | 3 wish | nsubj |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 wish | nsubj |
| 3 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 give | mark |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 8 give | nsubj |
| 7 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 give | aux |
| 8 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wish | ccomp |
| 9 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 give | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 dashed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 dashed | cc |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 dashed | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 dashed | nsubj |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 dashed | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 dashed | aux:pass |
| 16 | dashed | dash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 wish | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 ground | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ground | det |
| 19 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dashed | obl |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wish | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | present | Shall | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | give | may | woman's clothes | way | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | ||||
| 3 | dash | should · passive | woman | to the ground result | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient to ground=Result |
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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