The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 38

I should not care so much if only my dear daughter were married.”

Who acts: I · What happens: not care, marry · To what, where: dear daughter

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, 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 (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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 care	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 care	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 care	advmod
4	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 much	advmod
6	much	much	ADV	_	4 care	advmod
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 married	mark
8	only	only	ADV	_	11 daughter	advmod
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 daughter	nmod:poss
10	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 daughter	amod
11	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 married	nsubj:pass
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 married	aux:pass
13	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 care	advcl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 care	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 care	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not care	should	I						vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	marry a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		my dear daughter					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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