The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 57

I should like to be young and beautiful too.’

Who acts: I · What happens: like, be

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 (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 like	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 like	aux
3	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	6 young	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 young	cop
6	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 like	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 beautiful	cc
8	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 young	conj
9	too	too	ADV	_	3 like	advmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 like	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	like	should	I		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot
2	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	young property	tree rules
3	be		I 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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