The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 69

A fortnight ago you were as plump as heart could wish!'

Who acts: you, fortnight · What happens: be, wish · To what, where: fortnight

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, fortnight), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 fortnight	det
2	fortnight	fortnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wish	nsubj
3	ago	ago	ADV	_	7 plump	advmod
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 plump	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 plump	cop
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 plump	advmod
7	plump	plump	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 fortnight	acl:relcl
8	as	as	ADP	_	9 heart	case
9	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 plump	obl
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 wish	aux
11	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 wish	punct
13	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 wish	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	you	a fortnight not said here				as heart; ago, plump property	tree rules
2	wish	could	a fortnight						vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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