The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 188

‘I wish myself in the room of the Princess Ludovine,’ said he, and in a second he was there.

Who acts: I, John · What happens: wish, say, be · To what, where: myself, room · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, John), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 wish	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 wish	nsubj
3	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 said	ccomp
4	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 wish	iobj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 room	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 room	det
7	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wish	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 Princess	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Princess	det
10	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 room	nmod
11	Ludovine	Ludovine	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Princess	flat
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 wish	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 wish	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 said	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 there	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 there	cc
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 second	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 second	det
20	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 there	obl
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 there	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 there	cop
23	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 said	parataxis
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wish	present	I	myself	the room of the Princess			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot myself=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	John					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is	past	John			second	there property	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: «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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