The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 46

She never speaks to me, and if I were nearer to her I know I should find her only a shadow, which would be very annoying.

Who acts: lion, I, shadow · What happens: not speak, be, know, find · To what, where: me, lion · 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 (lion, I, shadow), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 speaks	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 speaks	advmod
3	speaks	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 me	case
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 speaks	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 nearer	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 nearer	cc
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 nearer	mark
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 nearer	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 nearer	cop
11	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 speaks	advcl
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 her	case
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 nearer	obl
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 know	nsubj
15	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 nearer	parataxis
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 find	nsubj
17	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 find	aux
18	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 know	ccomp
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 find	obj
20	only	only	ADV	_	22 shadow	advmod
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 shadow	det
22	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 find	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 annoying	punct
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 annoying	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 annoying	aux
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 annoying	cop
27	very	very	ADV	_	28 annoying	advmod
28	annoying	annoying	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 shadow	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 speaks	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not speak speech: other	present	lion		me		vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to i=Co-Agent
2	is a condition, not said to happen	past	I		lion	near property	tree rules
3	know	present	I				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	find	should	I	lion			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic
5	is	would	a shadow			annoying 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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