The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 206

‘I wish,’ he cried, ‘that we were at the ends of the earth;’ and in one second he was there, still clasping the Princess tightly in his arms.

Who acts: I, soldier, we · What happens: wish, cry, be, clasp · To what, where: ends, Princess

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, soldier, we), 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	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 wish	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 wish	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cried	nsubj
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wish	parataxis
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ends	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 ends	punct
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 ends	mark
11	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 ends	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 ends	cop
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 ends	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 ends	det
15	ends	end	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cried	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 earth	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 earth	det
18	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ends	nmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 wish	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 wish	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 there	cc
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 second	case
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 second	nummod
24	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 there	obl
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 there	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 there	cop
27	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 wish	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 clasping	punct
29	still	still	ADV	_	30 clasping	advmod
30	clasping	clasp	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 wish	advcl
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Princess	det
32	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 clasping	obj
33	tightly	tightly	ADV	_	30 clasping	advmod
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 arms	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 arms	nmod:poss
36	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 tightly	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wish	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	wish	present	I				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	cry speech: express	past	soldier				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	we		at the ends	of the earth	tree rules
4	is	past	soldier		second	there property	tree rules
5	clasp	gerund	I not said here	the Princess	still	tightly property	vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme

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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