The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 205

But how strange of him, when I should have loved him so much, and we should have been so happy together!’

Who acts: I, we · What happens: love, be · To what, where: Frisk

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, we), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 strange	cc
2	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 strange	advmod
3	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 strange	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 loved	punct
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 loved	advmod
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 loved	nsubj
9	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 loved	aux
10	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 loved	aux
11	loved	love	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 strange	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 loved	obj
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 much	advmod
14	much	much	ADV	_	11 loved	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 happy	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 happy	cc
17	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 happy	nsubj
18	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 happy	aux
19	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 happy	aux
20	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 happy	cop
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 happy	advmod
22	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 strange	conj
23	together	together	ADV	_	22 happy	advmod
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 strange	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 strange	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	should · perfect	I	Frisk					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	is	should · perfect	we					happy, together 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 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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