The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 52
“Oh, if I could only meet with a true friend,” he thought, “so that I should have some one to speak to.
Who acts: son · What happens: meet, think, have, speak · To what, where: one · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son), 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 | _ | 8 meet | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 8 meet | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 meet | mark |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 meet | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 meet | aux |
| 7 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 meet | advmod |
| 8 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 thought | ccomp |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 friend | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 friend | det |
| 11 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 friend | amod |
| 12 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 meet | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 meet | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 meet | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 thought | nsubj |
| 16 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 have | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 have | punct |
| 19 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 23 have | mark |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 so | fixed |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 have | nsubj |
| 22 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 have | aux |
| 23 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 thought | ccomp |
| 24 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 one | det |
| 25 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 have | obj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 speak | mark |
| 27 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 one | acl |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 speak | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | could | son | with a true friend | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with friend=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | son | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | have in a quote | should | son | some one | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | ||||
| 4 | speak speech: other in a quote | to-infinitive | son not said here | some one not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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