The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 36

If the emperor’s daughter were only here, and she would kiss my forehead, I would throw you higher still.”

Who acts: daughter, hottest, I · What happens: be, kiss, throw · To what, where: forehead, you

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, hottest, 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	8 here	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 emperor	det
3	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 daughter	nmod:poss
4	’s	's	PART	_	3 emperor	case
5	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 here	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 here	cop
7	only	only	ADV	_	8 here	advmod
8	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 throw	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 kiss	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 kiss	cc
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 kiss	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 kiss	aux
13	kiss	kiss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 here	conj
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 forehead	nmod:poss
15	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 kiss	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 here	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 throw	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 throw	aux
19	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 throw	obj
21	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 throw	parataxis
22	still	still	ADV	_	21 higher	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 throw	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	19 throw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a condition, not said to happen	past	the emperor's daughter		here property	tree rules
2	kiss	would	hottest = hot	my forehead		vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forehead=Co-Agent
3	throw	would	I	you		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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