The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 71
Do you wish to fight a second time with that old witch?’
Who acts: you · What happens: wish, fight
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23. 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wish | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 wish | nsubj |
| 3 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 fight | mark |
| 5 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wish | xcomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 time | det |
| 7 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 time | amod |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fight | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 witch | case |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 witch | det |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 witch | amod |
| 12 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fight | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wish | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 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 | fight not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | time | with that old witch | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with witch=Co-Agent |
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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