The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 62

‘And why do you wish to go there?’

Who acts: you · What happens: wish, go

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 wish	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 wish	cc
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 wish	advmod
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 wish	aux
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 wish	nsubj
6	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 go	mark
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 wish	xcomp
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 go	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 wish	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 wish	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wish	present · do-support	you						vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here			there			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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