The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 99

“Of course, if I had had any idea how ill I really was, I should have spoken at once.”

Who acts: man, idea · What happens: have, be, speak · To what, where: idea · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, idea), 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	_	20 spoken	punct
2	Of	of	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	8 had	advmod
3	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Of	fixed
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Of	punct
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 had	mark
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 had	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 had	aux
8	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 spoken	advcl
9	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	10 idea	det
10	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	obj
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	12 ill	advmod
12	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 had	xcomp
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 was	nsubj
14	really	really	ADV	_	15 was	advmod
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 ill	cop
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 had	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 spoken	nsubj
18	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 spoken	aux
19	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 spoken	aux
20	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 once	case
22	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	20 spoken	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 spoken	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	20 spoken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past · perfect	the man and this time = man	any idea		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient
2	is in a quote	past	any idea not said here		ill property	tree rules
3	speak speech: other in a quote	should · perfect	the man and this time = man			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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.

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