The Green Fairy Book, The Story of a Clever Tailor, sentence 36
‘Oh,’ cried the bear, ‘I do wish I could play like that, then I could dance whenever the fancy took me.
Who acts: I, fancy · What happens: cry, wish, play, dance, take · To what, where: bear, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Clever Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, fancy), 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 | _ | 5 cried | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 cried | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 5 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bear | det |
| 7 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cried | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wish | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 wish | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 wish | nsubj |
| 11 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 wish | aux |
| 12 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 cried | conj |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 play | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 play | aux |
| 15 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 wish | ccomp |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 17 that | case |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 play | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 dance | punct |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 dance | advmod |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 dance | nsubj |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 dance | aux |
| 22 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 wish | conj |
| 23 | whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 26 took | advmod |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 fancy | det |
| 25 | fancy | fancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 took | nsubj |
| 26 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 dance | ccomp |
| 27 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 took | iobj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | the bear | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bear=Topic | |||||
| 2 | wish | present · do-support | I | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | play | could | I | like that | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | dance | could | I | then | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | take | past | the fancy | me | whenever property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument 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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