The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 29
Oh, if I were only the rock!”
Who acts: I · What happens: be · To what, where: rock
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 (I), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 8 rock | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 rock | mark |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 rock | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 rock | cop |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 rock | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 rock | det |
| 8 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 rock | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 rock | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | I | the rock | tree rules |
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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