The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 190
After a few days, the ladies said they wished to go home again.
Who acts: ladies, people · What happens: say, wish, go · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ladies, people), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 4 days | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 days | det |
| 3 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 days | amod |
| 4 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 said | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 days | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ladies | det |
| 7 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 wished | nsubj |
| 10 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 go | mark |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 wished | xcomp |
| 13 | home | home | ADV | _ | 12 go | advmod |
| 14 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 go | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the ladies | day | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | wish | past | people | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | people not said here | again | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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