The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 3, sentence 63
Then he wanted to know what would be her best wish for the person who was lucky enough to accomplish it.
Who acts: gratitude, person · What happens: want, know, be, accomplish · To what, where: best wish, person · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gratitude, person), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 wanted | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wanted | nsubj |
| 3 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 know | mark |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wanted | xcomp |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 wish | nsubj |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 wish | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 wish | cop |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 wish | nmod:poss |
| 10 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 wish | amod |
| 11 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 know | ccomp |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 person | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 person | det |
| 14 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wish | nmod |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 lucky | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 lucky | cop |
| 17 | lucky | lucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 person | acl:relcl |
| 18 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 17 lucky | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 accomplish | mark |
| 20 | accomplish | accomplish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 lucky | advcl |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 accomplish | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | gratitude | then | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | know not said to happen | to-infinitive | gratitude not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a | would | Princess's best wish | for the person | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the person | enough, lucky property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | accomplish | to-infinitive | the person not said here | person | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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