The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 20

‘My dear,’ said she to her husband, when she was beginning to recover, ‘I think I’d feel better if I was to see my father and mother and sisters once more.

Who acts: mother, I · What happens: say, begin, recover, think, have, feel · To what, where: husband, father · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, 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	_	3 dear	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 dear	nmod:poss
3	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 dear	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 dear	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dear	parataxis
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 husband	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 husband	nmod:poss
10	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 beginning	punct
12	when	when	SCONJ	_	15 beginning	mark
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 beginning	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 beginning	aux
15	beginning	begin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 said	parataxis
16	to	to	PART	_	17 recover	mark
17	recover	recover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 beginning	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 think	punct
19	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 think	punct
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 think	nsubj
21	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 beginning	conj
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 ’d	nsubj
23	’d	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 think	ccomp
24	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 ’d	xcomp
25	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 feel	xcomp
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 see	mark
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 see	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 see	aux
29	to	to	PART	_	30 see	mark
30	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 feel	advcl
31	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 father	nmod:poss
32	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 see	obj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 mother	cc
34	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 father	conj
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 sisters	cc
36	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 father	conj
37	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	38 more	advmod
38	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	30 see	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	mother		mother's husband		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to husband=Recipient
2	begin	past · progressive	mother				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	recover	to-infinitive	mother not said here				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	think speech: other	present	I				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	have	past	I				tree rules
6	feel	infinitive	I not said here			good property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
7	see a condition, not said to happen	past	I	my father and mother and sisters			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer father=Stimulus

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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