The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 113

One day the wife said to her husband, ‘I am pining to have the liver of a nyamatsane for my dinner.

Who acts: wife, I · What happens: say, pine, have · To what, where: husband, liver · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, I), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wife	det
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 husband	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 husband	nmod:poss
8	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 pining	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 pining	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 pining	nsubj
12	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 pining	aux
13	pining	pine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 said	advcl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 have	mark
15	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 pining	xcomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 liver	det
17	liver	liver	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 have	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 nyamatsane	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 nyamatsane	det
20	nyamatsane	nyamatsane	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 liver	nmod
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 dinner	case
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 dinner	nmod:poss
23	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 have	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the wife		Paris's husband	day		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to husband=Recipient
2	pine	present · progressive	I					vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	have	to-infinitive	I not said here	the liver of a nyamatsane			for my dinner	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent liver=Patient

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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