The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 90

‘I believe that big boar would be of more use here than I am,’ he thought, and lo! at the wish the wild boar came and began to push hard against the wall.

Who acts: I, big boar, boar, wild boar · What happens: believe, be, use, think, come, begin · To what, where: wish

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, big boar, boar, wild boar), 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	_	3 believe	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 believe	nsubj
3	believe	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 use	mark
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 boar	amod
6	boar	boar	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 use	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 more	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 more	cop
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 more	case
10	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 boar	acl:relcl
11	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 thought	advcl
12	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 use	advmod
13	than	than	SCONJ	_	15 am	mark
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 am	nsubj
15	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 use	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 am	punct
17	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 use	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 thought	nsubj
19	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 believe	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 came	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 came	cc
22	lo	lo	INTJ	_	30 came	discourse
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	22 lo	punct
24	at	at	ADP	_	26 wish	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 wish	det
26	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 came	obl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 boar	det
28	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 boar	amod
29	boar	boar	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 came	nsubj
30	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 believe	parataxis
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 began	cc
32	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 came	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 push	mark
34	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 began	xcomp
35	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	34 push	advmod
36	against	against	ADP	_	38 wall	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 wall	det
38	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 push	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 believe	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	believe	present	I			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	would	big boar not said here		more property	tree rules
3	use	present	big boar	here		vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	think speech: other	past	boar			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	come	past	the wild boar	the wish		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at wish=Location
6	begin	past	the wild boar not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	push	to-infinitive	the wild boar not said here		against the wall; hard property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent against wall=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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