The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 76
And if you wish for a proof of it, you can see if she knows me or not.
Who acts: you, Eglantine · What happens: wish, see, know, proof · To what, where: me, wretch
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Eglantine), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 see | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 wish | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 wish | nsubj |
| 4 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 see | advcl |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 proof | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 proof | det |
| 7 | proof | proof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wish | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 proof | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wish | punct |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 see | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 see | aux |
| 13 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 knows | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 knows | nsubj |
| 16 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 see | ccomp |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 knows | obj |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 not | cc |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 knows | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish a condition, not said to happen | present | you | for a proof of wretch | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for proof=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | can | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | know a condition, not said to happen | present | Eglantine | me | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | proof | wretch | nom proof «cognition transitive»: of=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: «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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