The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 10
“Do you mean that you would like to become a fish?”
Who acts: you · What happens: mean, like, become · To what, where: fish · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 mean | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 mean | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 mean | nsubj |
| 4 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 like | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 like | nsubj |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 like | aux |
| 8 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 mean | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 become | mark |
| 10 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 like | xcomp |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 fish | det |
| 12 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 become | xcomp |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 mean | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | like in a quote | would | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | become not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | a fish | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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 Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (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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