The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 86
‘What if I were to try?’ thought she.
Who acts: I · What happens: try, think · To what, where: wife
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23. 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 | _ | 7 try | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 try | obj |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 try | mark |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 try | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 try | aux |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 try | mark |
| 7 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 thought | ccomp |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 try | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 try | punct |
| 10 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 thought | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try a condition, not said to happen | past | I | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | wife | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent she=Attribute clause=Theme |
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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