Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 99

I wish to purchase a she fish."

Who acts: I, Fish · What happens: wish, purchase, fish

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Fish), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 wish	nsubj
2	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 purchase	mark
4	purchase	purchase	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wish	xcomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fish	det
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fish	nsubj
7	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 purchase	obj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wish	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 wish	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	wish	present	I	vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	purchase not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	fish		Fish	tree rules

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: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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