Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Miller of the Dee., sentence 11

I envy you; and I would gladly change places with you, if I could only be as light-hearted as you are."

Who acts: I, you · What happens: envy, change, heart, be · To what, where: you, places, I

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Miller of the Dee.. 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 envy	nsubj
2	envy	envy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 envy	obj
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 change	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 change	cc
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 change	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 change	aux
8	gladly	gladly	ADV	_	9 change	advmod
9	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 envy	parataxis
10	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 change	obj
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 you	case
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 change	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 hearted	punct
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 hearted	mark
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 hearted	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 hearted	aux
17	only	only	ADV	_	22 hearted	advmod
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 hearted	aux:pass
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 hearted	mark
20	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hearted	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 light	punct
22	hearted	heart	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 change	parataxis
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 are	mark
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 are	nsubj
25	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 hearted	advcl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 envy	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 envy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	envy	present	I	you		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
2	change	would	I	places	with you; gladly property	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent place=Theme with you=Co-Agent
3	heart a condition, not said to happen	could · passive		I		tree rules
4	does	present	you			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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