The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 47

‘Ah!’ says the other, ‘if I had my princess here, and could see you now and then, I’d never know a dismal day.’

Who acts: I · What happens: say, have, see, not know · To what, where: other, princess, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	_	5 says	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	5 says	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 other	det
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 says	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 had	mark
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 had	nsubj
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 says	ccomp
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 princess	nmod:poss
14	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	obj
15	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 had	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 see	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 see	cc
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 see	aux
19	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 says	advcl
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 see	obj
21	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 see	advmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 then	cc
23	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 now	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 know	punct
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 know	nsubj
26	’d	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 know	aux
27	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	28 know	advmod
28	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 see	conj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 day	det
30	dismal	dismal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 day	amod
31	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 know	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present		the other			tree rules
2	have a condition, not said to happen	past	I	my princess	here		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient
3	see	could		you		now	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
4	not know	past	I			day	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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