Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 65

I wish you could like me a little better.

Who acts: I, you · What happens: wish, like · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., 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 (I, 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 wish	nsubj
2	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 like	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 like	aux
5	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wish	ccomp
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 like	obj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 little	det
8	little	little	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 better	advmod
9	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 like	xcomp
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wish	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wish	present	I						vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	like	could	you	me				good property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot i=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: «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (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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