The Green Fairy Book, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 14

His daughter reflected for a moment, and then said: ‘Dear father, I wish for eleven girls as nearly as possible of the same height, age, and appearance as myself.’

Who acts: daughter, I · What happens: reflect, say, wish · To what, where: Dear father · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Huntsmen. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 daughter	nmod:poss
2	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reflected	nsubj
3	reflected	reflect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 moment	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 moment	det
6	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reflected	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 said	advmod
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 reflected	conj
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 father	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 father	punct
13	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 father	amod
14	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 wish	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 wish	nsubj
17	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 father	acl:relcl
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 girls	case
19	eleven	eleven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 girls	nummod
20	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 wish	obl
21	as	as	ADV	_	22 nearly	advmod
22	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	24 possible	advmod
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 possible	mark
24	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 wish	advcl
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 height	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 height	det
27	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 height	amod
28	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 possible	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 age	punct
30	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 height	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 appearance	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 appearance	cc
33	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 father	conj
34	as	as	ADP	_	35 myself	case
35	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	33 appearance	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 reflected	punct
37	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 reflected	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	reflect	past	father's daughter		moment		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	father's daughter not said here		then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	wish	present	I	Dear father and appearance as myself not said here		for eleven girls	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot father=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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