The Yellow Fairy Book, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25), sentence 5

She sighed, and turning to her husband said, ‘I wish I had as many children as there are icicles hanging there.’

Who acts: woman, turning, I, icicles · What happens: sigh, turn, say, wish, have, be · To what, where: many children · 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, turning, I, icicles), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sighed	nsubj
2	sighed	sigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
5	turning	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 said	csubj
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 turning	obl
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sighed	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 wish	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 wish	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 wish	nsubj
13	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 had	nsubj
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 wish	ccomp
16	as	as	ADV	_	17 many	advmod
17	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 children	amod
18	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 had	obj
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 are	mark
20	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	21 are	expl
21	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 had	conj
22	icicles	icicle	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 are	nsubj
23	hanging	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 icicles	acl
24	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 hanging	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sighed	punct
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 sighed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sigh	past	woman				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	turn	gerund				to woman's husband result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to husband=Result
3	say speech: assert	past	turning				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	wish	present	I				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	have	past	I	many children			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
6	does	present	icicles		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	hang	gerund	icicles not said here		there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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 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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