The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 6

If I only knew that there were not more than two I should not mind, for them I should take one in each hand and give them a good shaking, like Susanna once shook me.’

Who acts: I, two, Susanna · What happens: know, be, not mind, take, give, shake · To what, where: one, hand, good shaking, them, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, two, Susanna), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 knew	mark
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 knew	nsubj
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 knew	advmod
4	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 mind	advcl
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 were	mark
6	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	7 were	expl
7	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 knew	ccomp
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 two	advmod
9	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	11 two	advmod
10	than	than	ADP	_	9 more	fixed
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 mind	nsubj
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 mind	nsubj
13	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 mind	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 mind	advmod
15	mind	mind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 take	punct
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 take	obl
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 take	nsubj
20	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 take	aux
21	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 mind	advcl
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 take	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 hand	case
24	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	25 hand	det
25	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 take	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 give	cc
27	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 take	conj
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 give	iobj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 shaking	det
30	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 shaking	amod
31	shaking	shaking	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 give	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 shook	punct
33	like	like	SCONJ	_	36 shook	mark
34	Susanna	Susanna	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 shook	nsubj
35	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	36 shook	advmod
36	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 give	conj
37	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 shook	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 mind	punct
39	’	'	PUNCT	_	15 mind	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	know a condition, not said to happen	past	I					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	be	past				there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not mind	should	two					vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	take	should	I	one		each hand	for them = they	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent one=Value in hand=Location
5	give	infinitive	I not said here	a good shaking	them = they			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient shaking=Theme
6	shake	past	Susanna	me			once property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent i=Patient

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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