Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences, sentence 34

If I could only stab every one of them!

Who acts: I · What happens: stab · To what, where: one

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences. 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 stab	mark
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 stab	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 stab	aux
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 stab	advmod
5	stab	stab	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 one	det
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stab	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 one	nmod
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 stab	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stab	could	I	every one of pot					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient

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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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