The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 64
“If you had accepted my offer,” said Tintin, “you would only have had me to regret, and I should have had all your gratitude.”
Who acts: you, Tintin, me, I, my · What happens: accept, say, have, regret, offer · To what, where: you, me, gratitude · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, 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 (you, Tintin, me, I), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 accepted | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 accepted | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 accepted | aux |
| 5 | accepted | accept | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 said | advcl |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 offer | nmod:poss |
| 7 | offer | offer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 accepted | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 accepted | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 accepted | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Tintin | Tintin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 had | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 have | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 have | punct |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 have | nsubj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 have | aux |
| 16 | only | only | ADV | _ | 17 have | advmod |
| 17 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 Tintin | parataxis |
| 18 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 had | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 regret | mark |
| 21 | regret | regret | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 had | xcomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 had | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 had | cc |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 had | nsubj |
| 25 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 had | aux |
| 26 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 had | aux |
| 27 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 said | ccomp |
| 28 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 gratitude | det:predet |
| 29 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 gratitude | nmod:poss |
| 30 | gratitude | gratitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 had | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accept a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past · perfect · passive | you | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | have in a quote | would | you | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | have in a quote | past | Tintin | me | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | regret in a quote | to-infinitive | me not said here | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | have in a quote | should · perfect | I | your gratitude | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gratitude=Patient | ||||
| 7 | offer in a quote | my | nom offer «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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