The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 34

Ah! if I only dared to beg this gift from the fairy, I should be wiser than before and know how to choose better.’

Who acts: I · What happens: dare, beg, be, know, choose · To what, where: gift · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33. 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	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	6 dared	discourse
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Ah	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 dared	mark
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 dared	nsubj
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 dared	advmod
6	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 beg	mark
8	beg	beg	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 dared	xcomp
9	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 gift	det
10	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 beg	obj
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 fairy	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 fairy	det
13	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 beg	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 wiser	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 wiser	nsubj
16	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 wiser	aux
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 wiser	cop
18	wiser	wise	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 dared	conj
19	than	than	ADP	_	20 before	case
20	before	before	ADV	_	18 wiser	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 know	cc
22	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 dared	conj
23	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	25 choose	advmod
24	to	to	PART	_	25 choose	mark
25	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 know	ccomp
26	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	25 choose	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 dared	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 dared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	dare	past	I			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	beg speech: request	to-infinitive	I not said here	this gift	from the fairy	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent gift=Recipient
3	is	should	I		wise property	tree rules
4	know	present	I not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	choose	to-infinitive			well property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: 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 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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