The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 71
Next I shall wish that every time you open your mouth a big toad may fall out of it, and your voice shall be like the roaring of a bull.
Who acts: I, you, big toad, voice · What happens: wish, open, fall, be · To what, where: that, mouth
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, big toad, voice), 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 | Next | next | ADV | _ | 4 wish | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 wish | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 wish | aux |
| 4 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 wish | obj |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 time | det |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wish | obj |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 open | nsubj |
| 9 | open | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 time | acl:relcl |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 11 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 open | obj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 toad | det |
| 13 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 toad | amod |
| 14 | toad | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fall | nsubj |
| 15 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 fall | aux |
| 16 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 open | conj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 fall | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 roaring | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 roaring | cc |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 voice | nmod:poss |
| 23 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 roaring | nsubj |
| 24 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 roaring | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 roaring | cop |
| 26 | like | like | ADP | _ | 28 roaring | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 roaring | det |
| 28 | roaring | roaring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wish | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 bull | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 bull | det |
| 31 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 roaring | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | shall | I | that | time | next property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot that=Theme | ||
| 2 | open | present | you | your mouth | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fall | may | a big toad | mouth | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme out it=Location | ||||
| 4 | is | shall | your voice | like the roaring; of a bull | 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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