The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 200
Your wife wishes you to ask whether I shall carry off your second son as I did the first.’
Who acts: wife, I · What happens: wish, ask, carry off, do · To what, where: you, first · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Halfman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, 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 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 wife | nmod:poss |
| 2 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wishes | nsubj |
| 3 | wishes | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 wishes | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 ask | mark |
| 6 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wishes | advcl |
| 7 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 10 carry | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 carry | nsubj |
| 9 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 carry | aux |
| 10 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 ask | ccomp |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 carry | compound:prt |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 son | nmod:poss |
| 13 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 son | amod |
| 14 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 carry | vocative |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 did | mark |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 did | nsubj |
| 17 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 carry | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 first | det |
| 19 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 17 did | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wishes | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 wishes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | present | Your wife | you | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot you=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | Your wife not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | carry off | shall | I | your second son vocative | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | do | past | I | the first | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent first=Eventuality |
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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