The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 76

I wish I knew, though, how one ought to see about changing one’s position.

Who acts: I, one · What happens: wish, know, see, change · To what, where: one position · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (I, one), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 wish	nsubj
2	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 knew	nsubj
4	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wish	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 though	punct
6	though	though	ADV	_	2 wish	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 see	punct
8	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	12 see	advmod
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 see	nsubj
10	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 see	aux
11	to	to	PART	_	12 see	mark
12	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wish	conj
13	about	about	SCONJ	_	14 changing	mark
14	changing	change	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 see	advcl
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 position	nummod
16	’s	's	PART	_	15 one	case
17	position	position	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 changing	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wish	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wish	present	I		though property	vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	know	past	I			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	see	ought	one			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	change	gerund	one not said here	one position		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent position=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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