The Yellow Fairy Book, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25), sentence 15

The woman sighed deeply and said, ‘I wish I had given birth to a Fire-son!’

Who acts: woman, I · What happens: sigh, say, wish, give · To what, where: birth, Fire son · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 woman	det
2	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sighed	nsubj
3	sighed	sigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	deeply	deeply	ADV	_	3 sighed	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 said	cc
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sighed	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wish	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 wish	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 wish	nsubj
10	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 said	ccomp
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 given	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 given	aux
13	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 wish	ccomp
14	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 given	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	19 son	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 son	det
17	Fire	Fire	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 son	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 Fire	punct
19	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 given	obl
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 sighed	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 sighed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	sigh	past	the woman			deeply property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the woman not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	wish	present	I				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	give	past · perfect	I	birth	a Fire son		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent birth=Theme to son=Recipient

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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