The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 61

‘I was thinking what a pity it was you did not tell me while I was still on land, and then I would have brought my heart with me.’

Who acts: I, pity · What happens: think, not be, be, bring · To what, where: me, land, heart · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, pity), 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	_	4 thinking	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 thinking	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thinking	aux
4	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 tell	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 pity	det
7	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tell	nsubj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 tell	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 tell	cop
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 tell	nsubj
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 tell	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 tell	advmod
13	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 thinking	parataxis
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 tell	iobj
15	while	while	SCONJ	_	20 land	mark
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 land	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 land	cop
18	still	still	ADV	_	20 land	advmod
19	on	on	ADP	_	20 land	case
20	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tell	ccomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 brought	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 brought	cc
23	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 brought	advmod
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 brought	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 brought	aux
26	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 brought	aux
27	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 land	parataxis
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 heart	nmod:poss
29	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 brought	obj
30	with	with	ADP	_	31 me	case
31	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 brought	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thinking	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 thinking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past · progressive	I						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not be speech: assert	past · do-support	a pity		me			tell property	tree rules
3	is	past	I			land	still		tree rules
4	bring	would · perfect	I	my heart			then	with me	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent heart=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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