The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 84
Oh, if he only could have gone with them!
Who acts: neck · What happens: go
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (neck), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 8 gone | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 gone | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 gone | nsubj |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 gone | advmod |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 gone | aux |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 gone | aux |
| 8 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 gone | obl |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | could · perfect | neck | with globe | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with they=Beneficiary |
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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