The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 11
“Oh, if I were only a prince, and could go in such a carriage and have a golden umbrella held over me, how happy I should be!”
Who acts: stone cutter · What happens: be, go, have, hold · To what, where: prince, carriage, golden umbrella · 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), 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 | _ | 9 prince | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 9 prince | 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 | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 go | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 go | cc |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 go | aux |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 prince | parataxis |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 carriage | case |
| 15 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 carriage | det:predet |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 carriage | det |
| 17 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 go | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 have | cc |
| 19 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 go | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 umbrella | det |
| 21 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 umbrella | amod |
| 22 | umbrella | umbrella | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 have | obj |
| 23 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 umbrella | acl |
| 24 | over | over | ADP | _ | 25 me | case |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 held | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 happy | punct |
| 27 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 28 happy | advmod |
| 28 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 umbrella | parataxis |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 be | nsubj |
| 30 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 be | aux |
| 31 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 happy | ccomp |
| 32 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 prince | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 prince | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | the stone cutter = cutter | a prince | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go in a quote | could | such carriage | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in carriage=Location | |||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | a golden umbrella | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent umbrella=Patient | |||||
| 4 | hold in a quote | participle | a golden umbrella not said here | over the stone cutter = cutter | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over i=Location | ||||
| 5 | be in a quote | should | the stone cutter = cutter | vn exist-47.1 «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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