The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 172
I could have made you king, and we should have been so happy!”
Who acts: we · What happens: make, be · To what, where: I
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 made | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 made | aux |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 made | obj |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 happy | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 happy | cc |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 happy | nsubj |
| 10 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 happy | aux |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 happy | aux |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 happy | cop |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 happy | advmod |
| 14 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 made | conj |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | could · perfect · passive | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | should · perfect | we | happy property | tree rules |
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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