Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Inchcape Rock., sentence 42

If the fog would only clear away!" he said.

Who acts: fog · What happens: clear away, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Inchcape Rock.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fog), 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	_	6 clear	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fog	det
3	fog	fog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 clear	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 clear	aux
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 clear	advmod
6	clear	clear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	advcl
7	away	away	ADV	_	6 clear	advmod
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 clear	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 clear	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clear away a condition, not said to happen	would	the fog					away property	vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	fog						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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