The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 89
‘We wish to speak with the emperor,’ said one of the boys.
Who acts: We, one · What happens: wish, speak, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg641:3027): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 wish | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 wish | nsubj |
| 3 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 speak | mark |
| 5 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wish | xcomp |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 emperor | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 emperor | det |
| 8 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 speak | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 wish | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 wish | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 boys | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 boys | det |
| 15 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 one | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | present | We | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | speak speech: other not said to happen | to-infinitive | We not said here | with the emperor | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with emperor=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | one of the boys | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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