The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 10
“Oh, if I were only a prince!” said the stone-cutter to himself, as the carriage vanished round the corner.
Who acts: stone cutter, carriage · What happens: be, say, vanish · To what, where: prince · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stone cutter, carriage), 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 | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 12 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 prince | mark |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 prince | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 prince | cop |
| 7 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 prince | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 prince | det |
| 9 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Oh | advcl |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 cutter | det |
| 14 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cutter | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 stone | punct |
| 16 | cutter | cutter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 himself | case |
| 18 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 cutter | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 vanished | punct |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 vanished | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 carriage | det |
| 22 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 vanished | nsubj |
| 23 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | conj |
| 24 | round | round | ADP | _ | 26 corner | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 corner | det |
| 26 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 vanished | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | the stone cutter = cutter | a prince | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | the stone cutter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | vanish | past | the carriage | round the corner | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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: «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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