The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 72
“The days have passed so quickly with you,” he said, “I only wish I could take you with me now.”
Who acts: Bow · What happens: pass, say, wish, take · To what, where: days, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bow), 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 | _ | 5 passed | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 days | det |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 passed | aux |
| 5 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 said | ccomp |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 quickly | advmod |
| 7 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 5 passed | advmod |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 you | case |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 passed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 passed | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 passed | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 wish | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 wish | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 wish | nsubj |
| 17 | only | only | ADV | _ | 18 wish | advmod |
| 18 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | ccomp |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 take | nsubj |
| 20 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 take | aux |
| 21 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 wish | ccomp |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 take | obj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 me | case |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 take | obl |
| 25 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 take | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass in a quote | present · perfect · passive | the days | with you; quickly property | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Bow | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | wish in a quote | present | Bow | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | take in a quote | could | Bow | you | now | with Bow | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination |
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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