The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 102
Think what a trouble it would have been to drag it here!
Who acts: you, trouble · What happens: think, be · To what, where: trouble
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, 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 (you, trouble), 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 | Think | think | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 1 Think | obj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 trouble | det |
| 4 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Think | obj |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 drag | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 drag | aux |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 drag | aux |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 drag | cop |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 drag | mark |
| 10 | drag | drag | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Think | parataxis |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 drag | obj |
| 12 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 drag | advmod |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | imperative | you not said here | a trouble | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent what=Theme trouble=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | is | would · perfect | trouble | here | drag property | tree rules |
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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/28/102/