Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 140

If it only were not so dark here, and so terribly lonely!

Who acts: earth · What happens: not be

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (earth), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	7 dark	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 dark	nsubj
3	only	only	ADV	_	7 dark	advmod
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dark	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 dark	advmod
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 dark	advmod
7	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 lonely	advcl
8	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 dark	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 dark	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 lonely	cc
11	so	so	ADV	_	13 lonely	advmod
12	terribly	terribly	ADV	_	13 lonely	advmod
13	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	13 lonely	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	earth			here		dark property	tree rules

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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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