The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 35

'Oh! if her father could only see her!' broke forth the queen, clasping her hands. '

Who acts: father · What happens: see, break, clasp · To what, where: Muffette, queen, hands

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father), 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	_	9 see	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	9 see	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 see	mark
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 father	nmod:poss
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 see	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 see	aux
8	only	only	ADV	_	9 see	advmod
9	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 broke	ccomp
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 see	obj
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 see	punct
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 see	punct
13	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	forth	forth	ADV	_	13 broke	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 queen	det
16	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 broke	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 clasping	punct
18	clasping	clasp	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 broke	advcl
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 hands	nmod:poss
20	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 clasping	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 broke	punct
22	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 broke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see a condition, not said to happen	could	Muffette's father	Muffette		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
2	break	past		the queen	forth property	tree rules
3	clasp	gerund		Muffette's hands		vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=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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