The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 11

‘In fact, I was just wanting a boy who couldn’t read.

Who acts: I, boy · What happens: want, not read · To what, where: boy, fact

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, boy), 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	_	8 wanting	punct
2	In	in	ADP	_	3 fact	case
3	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wanting	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 fact	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 wanting	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 wanting	aux
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 wanting	advmod
8	wanting	want	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 boy	det
10	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wanting	obj
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 read	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 read	aux
13	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 read	advmod
14	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 boy	acl:relcl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 wanting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past · progressive	I	a boy		fact			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot boy=Theme
2	not read	could	a boy						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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