The Blue Fairy Book, The Goose-girl, sentence 44
“‘Tis you; pass under, Princess fair: If your mother only knew, Her heart would surely break in two.”
Who acts: Tis, mother, heart · What happens: pass, know, break · To what, where: Princess fair, two
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 (Tis, 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 pass | punct |
| 2 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Tis | punct |
| 3 | Tis | Tis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 pass | nsubj |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 Tis | nmod |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 pass | punct |
| 6 | pass | pass | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | under | under | ADP | _ | 10 fair | case |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 under | punct |
| 9 | Princess | princess | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fair | amod |
| 10 | fair | fair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pass | obl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 knew | punct |
| 12 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 knew | mark |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 mother | nmod:poss |
| 14 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 knew | nsubj |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 knew | advmod |
| 16 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 pass | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 break | punct |
| 18 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 heart | nmod:poss |
| 19 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 break | nsubj |
| 20 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 break | aux |
| 21 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 22 break | advmod |
| 22 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 knew | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 two | case |
| 24 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 break | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 pass | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 pass | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass in a quote | infinitive | Tis you | Princess fair | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under fair=Location | ||||
| 2 | know a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | your mother | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | break in a quote | would | tis'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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