The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 32

“‘Ah!’ said she, ‘if you really loved me you would not care where you were--a cave, a wood, a fox-hole, a desert, would please you equally well.

Who acts: Madam, you · What happens: say, love, not care, be · To what, where: Miranda, cave · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Madam, 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	_	6 said	punct
2	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 Ah	punct
3	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	6 said	discourse
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 Ah	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 Ah	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 loved	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 loved	punct
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 loved	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 loved	nsubj
12	really	really	ADV	_	13 loved	advmod
13	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	conj
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 loved	obj
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 care	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 care	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 care	advmod
18	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 loved	ccomp
19	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	24 cave	advmod
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 cave	nsubj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 cave	cop
22	--	--	PUNCT	_	24 cave	punct
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 cave	det
24	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 care	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 wood	punct
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 wood	det
27	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 cave	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 hole	punct
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 hole	det
30	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 hole	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 fox	punct
32	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 wood	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 desert	punct
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 desert	det
35	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 hole	appos
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 would	punct
37	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 cave	acl:relcl
38	please	please	INTJ	_	41 well	discourse
39	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	41 well	nsubj
40	equally	equally	ADV	_	41 well	advmod
41	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	37 would	advmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Madam		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	love a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	you	Miranda	tree rules
3	not care in a quote	would	you		vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is a in a quote	past	you	a cave and a wood and a fox hole	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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