The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 65

“One would almost think that mine had taken all the extra length that hers lacks!

Who acts: One, that · What happens: think, take, lack · To what, where: mine · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, that), 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 think	punct
2	One	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 think	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 think	aux
4	almost	almost	ADV	_	5 think	advmod
5	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 taken	mark
7	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 taken	nsubj:pass
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 taken	aux
9	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 think	ccomp
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 length	det:predet
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 length	det
12	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 length	amod
13	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 taken	obj
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 lacks	nsubj
15	hers	hers	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 lacks	nmod:poss
16	lacks	lack	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 length	parataxis
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other in a quote	would	One		almost property	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	take in a quote	past · perfect · passive		mine		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme length=Destination
3	lack in a quote		that			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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