The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 57
“If I hadn’t been carried,” replied the cabbage, “you may be very sure that I shouldn’t have thought of going there.”
Who acts: cabbage, you · What happens: not carry, reply, be, not think, go · To what, where: cabbage · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cabbage, you), 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 | _ | 10 replied | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 carried | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 carried | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 carried | aux |
| 5 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 carried | advmod |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 carried | aux:pass |
| 7 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 replied | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 carried | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 carried | punct |
| 10 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cabbage | det |
| 12 | cabbage | cabbage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 replied | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sure | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 sure | punct |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 sure | nsubj |
| 16 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 sure | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 sure | cop |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 sure | advmod |
| 19 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 replied | advcl |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 thought | mark |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 thought | nsubj |
| 22 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 thought | aux |
| 23 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 thought | advmod |
| 24 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 thought | aux |
| 25 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 sure | ccomp |
| 26 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 27 going | mark |
| 27 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 thought | advcl |
| 28 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 going | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not carry a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past · perfect · passive | the cabbage = cabbage | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the cabbage | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | may | you | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not think speech: other in a quote | should · perfect | the cabbage = cabbage | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | go in a quote | gerund | the cabbage = cabbage not said here | there | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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