The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 109
‘I wish they’d brought me some more.’
Who acts: I, tons · What happens: wish, have, bring · To what, where: more, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flying Ship(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, tons), 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 | _ | 3 wish | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 wish | nsubj |
| 3 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 ’d | nsubj |
| 5 | ’d | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wish | ccomp |
| 6 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ’d | ccomp |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 brought | obj |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 more | det |
| 9 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 brought | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wish | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | present | I | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have | past | tons = ton | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | bring | past | tons = ton not said here | some more | me | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination more=Theme |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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