The Blue Fairy Book, The Goose-girl, sentence 18
“If your mother only knew, Her heart would surely break in two.”
Who acts: mother, heart · What happens: know, break · To what, where: two · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Goose-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, heart), 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 knew | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 knew | mark |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 mother | nmod:poss |
| 4 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 knew | nsubj |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 knew | advmod |
| 6 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 break | punct |
| 8 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 heart | nmod:poss |
| 9 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 break | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 break | aux |
| 11 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 12 break | advmod |
| 12 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 knew | ccomp |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 two | case |
| 14 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 break | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 break | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | past | your mother | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | break in a quote | would | mother's heart | two | surely property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in two=Location |
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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