The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 36

I am longing for the moment when I can become some animal.

Who acts: I · What happens: long, become · To what, where: animal

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Caliph Stork. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 longing	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 longing	aux
3	longing	long	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 moment	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 moment	det
6	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 longing	obl
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 become	advmod
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 become	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 become	aux
10	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 longing	advcl
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 animal	det
12	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 become	xcomp
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 longing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	long	present · progressive	I				moment		vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	become	can	I	some animal					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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