Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 35

"I want her to be so black and so glossy that I can see myself in her body."

Who acts: henwife, mare · What happens: want, be, see · To what, where: mare, henwife, body

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fair, Brown, and Trembling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (henwife, mare), 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 want	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 want	nsubj
3	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 want	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	8 black	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 black	cop
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 black	advmod
8	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 want	xcomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 glossy	cc
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 glossy	advmod
11	glossy	glossy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 black	conj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 see	mark
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 see	nsubj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 see	aux
15	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 glossy	advcl
16	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 see	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 body	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 body	nmod:poss
19	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 see	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 want	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	want in a quote	present	the henwife = henwife	mare			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot she=Theme
2	is not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	mare not said here			black property	tree rules
3	be in a quote		mare not said here				tree rules
4	see in a quote	can	the henwife = henwife	the henwife = henwife	mare's body		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer myself=Stimulus

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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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