The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 8
If the emperor’s daughter were only here, and would kiss me on the forehead, I would throw you up higher still!”
Who acts: daughter, I · What happens: be, kiss, throw up · To what, where: me, 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, 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 | 12 kiss | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 kiss | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 kiss | cc |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 kiss | aux |
| 12 | kiss | kiss | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 kiss | obj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 forehead | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 forehead | det |
| 16 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 kiss | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 throw | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 throw | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 throw | aux |
| 20 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 kiss | conj |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 throw | obj |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 throw | compound:prt |
| 23 | higher | high | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 24 still | advmod |
| 24 | still | still | ADV | _ | 20 throw | advmod |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 kiss | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 kiss | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | the emperor's daughter | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | kiss | would | me | the forehead | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | throw up | would | I | you | still | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: 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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