The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 70

“If you would only show me how to do it, perhaps I should understand,” said she.

Who acts: you, woman · What happens: show, do, understand, say · To what, where: woman, fire · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, woman), 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	_	6 show	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 show	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 show	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 show	aux
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 show	advmod
6	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 said	ccomp
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 show	iobj
8	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 do	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 do	mark
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 show	ccomp
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 do	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 understand	punct
13	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	16 understand	advmod
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 understand	nsubj
15	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 understand	aux
16	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 show	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 show	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 show	punct
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 said	nsubj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	show a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	would	you		woman		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
2	do in a quote	to-infinitive		fire			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
3	understand in a quote	should	woman			perhaps property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	say speech: assert	past	woman				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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