The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 16
“I want a pair of wings to fly with, and a bottle to catch the water in,” he replied boldly.
Who acts: Chih, pair · What happens: want, fly, catch in, reply · To what, where: pair, water · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Chih, pair), 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 | _ | 3 want | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 want | nsubj |
| 3 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 pair | det |
| 5 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 want | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 wings | case |
| 7 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 pair | nmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 fly | mark |
| 9 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 want | xcomp |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 fly | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 want | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 bottle | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 bottle | det |
| 14 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 want | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 catch | mark |
| 16 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 want | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 water | det |
| 18 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 catch | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 catch | compound:prt |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 want | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 want | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 replied | nsubj |
| 23 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 want | parataxis |
| 24 | boldly | boldly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 replied | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want in a quote | present | Chih | a pair of wings | a bottle conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | fly not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | a pair of wings not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | catch in in a quote | to-infinitive | Chih not said here | the water | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | ||||
| 4 | reply speech: assert | past | Chih | boldly property | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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