The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 27

'There is something that I had set my heart on, though I hardly like to propose it on so short an acquaintance; but from what people have told me, I thought that you and I might keep house together comfortably, if you would only agree to try.

Who acts: something, I, you · What happens: be, set on, like, propose, tell, think · To what, where: heart, short acquaintance, people, me, house · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (something, I, you), 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	_	3 is	punct
2	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 is	expl
3	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 is	nsubj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 set	nsubj:pass
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 set	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 set	aux
8	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 something	acl:relcl
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 heart	nmod:poss
10	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 set	obj
11	on	on	ADP	_	8 set	compound:prt
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 like	punct
13	though	though	SCONJ	_	16 like	mark
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 like	nsubj
15	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	16 like	advmod
16	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 set	advcl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 propose	mark
18	propose	propose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 like	xcomp
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 propose	obj
20	on	on	ADP	_	24 acquaintance	case
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 short	advmod
22	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 acquaintance	amod
23	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 acquaintance	det
24	acquaintance	acquaintance	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 propose	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 thought	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 thought	cc
27	from	from	SCONJ	_	31 told	mark
28	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	31 told	obj
29	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 told	nsubj:pass
30	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 told	aux
31	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 thought	advcl
32	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 told	iobj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 told	punct
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 thought	nsubj
35	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 is	parataxis
36	that	that	ADP	_	37 you	case
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 thought	obl
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 keep	cc
39	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 keep	nsubj
40	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 keep	aux
41	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 thought	conj
42	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 keep	obj
43	together	together	ADV	_	41 keep	advmod
44	comfortably	comfortably	ADV	_	41 keep	advmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 agree	punct
46	if	if	SCONJ	_	50 agree	mark
47	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	50 agree	nsubj
48	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 agree	aux
49	only	only	ADV	_	50 agree	advmod
50	agree	agree	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 keep	conj
51	to	to	PART	_	52 try	mark
52	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 agree	xcomp
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	present	something			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	set on	past · perfect · passive		my heart				vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme heart=Destination
3	like	present	I				hardly property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	propose not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	heart		a short acquaintance		vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	tell speech: assert	present · perfect · passive		people	me			tree rules
6	think speech: other	past	I				that you	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	keep	might	I	house			comfortably, together property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme
8	agree speech: agree a condition, not said to happen	would	you					vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9	try not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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