The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 15

As Lucia was trying on her bridal wreath she said to her mother: “This wedding-garland would please me indeed if father Peter could lead me to the church.

Who acts: dame, wedding garland, father Peter · What happens: try, say, please, lead · To what, where: bridal wreath, mother, Friedlin, church · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dame, wedding garland, father Peter), 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	As	as	ADP	_	2 Lucia	case
2	Lucia	Lucia	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 trying	obl
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 trying	aux
4	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 wreath	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 wreath	nmod:poss
7	bridal	bridal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 wreath	amod
8	wreath	wreath	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 trying	obl
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 wreath	acl:relcl
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 mother	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 mother	nmod:poss
13	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obl
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 please	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 please	punct
16	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 garland	det
17	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 garland	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 wedding	punct
19	garland	garland	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 please	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 please	aux
21	please	please	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 trying	parataxis
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 please	obj
23	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	21 please	advmod
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 lead	mark
25	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 Peter	compound
26	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 lead	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 lead	aux
28	lead	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 please	advcl
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 lead	obj
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 church	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 church	det
32	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 lead	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 trying	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	try	past · progressive				dame's bridal wreath	as Lucia	vn try-61.1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	past	dame	dame's bridal wreath not said here	dame's mother			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent wreath=Topic to mother=Recipient
3	please in a quote	would	this wedding garland	Friedlin			indeed property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer
4	lead a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	could	father Peter	Friedlin		the church		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to church=Destination

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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