The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 112

He wished the maiden would let him have it in his hand, but he did not quite like to ask her to do so, and after a while she put it back into the box.

Who acts: angel, maiden · What happens: wish, let, have, not like, ask, do · To what, where: angel, ring, hand, maiden, box · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (angel, maiden), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wished	nsubj
2	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 maiden	det
4	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 let	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 let	aux
6	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wished	ccomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 let	obj
8	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 let	xcomp
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 have	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 hand	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 hand	nmod:poss
12	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 have	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 like	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 like	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 like	nsubj
16	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 like	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 like	advmod
18	quite	quite	ADV	_	19 like	advmod
19	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wished	advcl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 ask	mark
21	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 like	xcomp
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 ask	iobj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 do	mark
24	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 ask	xcomp
25	so	so	ADV	_	24 do	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 put	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 put	cc
28	after	after	ADP	_	30 while	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 while	det
30	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 put	obl
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 put	nsubj
32	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wished	advcl
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 put	obj
34	back	back	ADV	_	32 put	advmod
35	into	into	ADP	_	37 box	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 box	det
37	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 put	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	wish	past	angel					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	let	would	the maiden	angel				tree rules
3	have	infinitive	angel not said here	ring		angel's hand		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	not like	past · do-support	angel					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	ask speech: ask not said to happen	to-infinitive	angel not said here		maiden			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
6	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	angel not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	put back	past	maiden	ring		the box	while	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal

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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