The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 163
It is certainly a very innocent wish, and our innocent wishes ought to be fulfilled.
Who acts: underneath, our · What happens: be, fulfil, wish · To what, where: innocent wish, innocent wishes
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (underneath, our), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 wish | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 wish | cop |
| 3 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 7 wish | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 wish | det |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 innocent | advmod |
| 6 | innocent | innocent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 wish | amod |
| 7 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fulfilled | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 fulfilled | cc |
| 10 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 wishes | nmod:poss |
| 11 | innocent | innocent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 wishes | amod |
| 12 | wishes | wish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 fulfilled | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 fulfilled | aux |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 fulfilled | mark |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 fulfilled | aux:pass |
| 16 | fulfilled | fulfil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 wish | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | underneath | a innocent wish | certainly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | fulfil | ought · passive | our innocent wishes | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | wish | our | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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