The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 82
And, even if there were, how could I catch them?'
Who acts: I · What happens: be, catch · To what, where: flowers
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 catch | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 were | punct |
| 3 | even | even | ADV | _ | 6 were | advmod |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 were | mark |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 were | expl |
| 6 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 catch | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 catch | punct |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 catch | advmod |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 catch | aux |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 catch | nsubj |
| 11 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 catch | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 catch | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 catch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be a condition, not said to happen | past | I not said here | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | catch | could | I | flowers = flower | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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 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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