The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 4, sentence 3

‘If you really wish him to recover,’ said the Fairy, ‘you have only to catch the Trotting Mouse and the Chaffinch-on-the-Wing and bring them to me.

Who acts: you · What happens: wish, recover, say, have, catch, bring · To what, where: Vivien, Fairy, Trotting Mouse, Mouse, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	_	11 said	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 wish	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 wish	nsubj
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 wish	advmod
5	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	advcl
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wish	iobj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 recover	mark
8	recover	recover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wish	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 wish	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 wish	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Fairy	det
13	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 have	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 have	punct
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 have	nsubj
17	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	conj
18	only	only	ADV	_	20 catch	advmod
19	to	to	PART	_	20 catch	mark
20	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 have	xcomp
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Mouse	det
22	Trotting	trotting	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 Mouse	compound
23	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 catch	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 Wing	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Wing	det
26	Chaffinch	Chaffinch	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Wing	nsubj
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 Wing	punct
28	on	on	ADP	_	32 Wing	case
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 on	punct
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Wing	det
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 the	punct
32	Wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 Mouse	conj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 bring	cc
34	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 catch	conj
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 bring	obj
36	to	to	ADP	_	37 me	case
37	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 bring	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	wish a condition, not said to happen	present	you		Vivien	tree rules
2	recover not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past		the Fairy		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fairy=Topic
4	have	present	you			tree rules
5	catch	to-infinitive	you not said here	the Trotting Mouse and the Wing		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme
6	bring	infinitive	you not said here	Mouse	me	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to i=Destination

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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