The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 66
“You would have slept till eternity,” answered the prince, “if I had not been here to waken you.”
Who acts: You, prince · What happens: sleep, answer, not be, waken · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, prince), 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 | _ | 5 slept | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 slept | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 slept | aux |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 slept | aux |
| 5 | slept | sleep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 answered | advcl |
| 6 | till | till | ADP | _ | 7 eternity | case |
| 7 | eternity | eternity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 slept | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 slept | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 slept | punct |
| 10 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 prince | det |
| 12 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 answered | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 waken | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 waken | punct |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 here | mark |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 here | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 here | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 here | advmod |
| 19 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 here | cop |
| 20 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 waken | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 waken | mark |
| 22 | waken | waken | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 answered | ccomp |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 waken | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 waken | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 waken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep in a quote | would · perfect | You | till eternity | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the prince | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past · perfect | the prince = prince | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | waken in a quote | to-infinitive | you | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
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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