The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 36

Or if I could only tell him all that has happened since we parted.

Who acts: I, that, we · What happens: tell, happen, part · To what, where: father · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (I, that, we), 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	Or	or	CCONJ	_	6 tell	cc
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 tell	mark
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 tell	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	aux
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 tell	advmod
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tell	iobj
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 happened	det:predet
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 happened	nsubj
10	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 happened	aux
11	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 tell	ccomp
12	since	since	SCONJ	_	14 parted	mark
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 parted	nsubj
14	parted	part	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 happened	advcl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	could	I	father	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	happen	present · perfect	that		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	part	past	we		vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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