Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 25, sentence 13
I do not wish to be misunderstood.
Who acts: I · What happens: not wish, misunderstand
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 wish | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 wish | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 wish | advmod |
| 4 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 misunderstood | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 misunderstood | aux:pass |
| 7 | misunderstood | misunderstand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 wish | xcomp |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not wish | present · do-support | I | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | misunderstand not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | I not said here | vn comprehend-87.2 «NP V how S» |
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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