The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 5

Oh dear! if our own dear mother only knew all about it!

Who acts: own dear mother · What happens: know

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (own dear mother), 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	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	2 dear	discourse
2	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 dear	punct
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 knew	mark
5	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mother	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 mother	amod
7	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 mother	amod
8	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 knew	nsubj
9	only	only	ADV	_	10 knew	advmod
10	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 dear	advcl
11	all	all	ADV	_	13 it	advmod
12	about	about	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 knew	obl
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 dear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	our own dear mother					about morsel	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about it=Stimulus

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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