The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 51

Would that everyone was as polite as you.

Who acts: everyone · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (everyone), 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	Would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 polite	aux
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 polite	mark
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 polite	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 polite	cop
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 polite	advmod
6	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	as	as	ADP	_	8 you	case
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 polite	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 polite	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	everyone					as you; polite property	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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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