The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 106
It almost breaks my heart to think of all you have suffered, and I only wish I had known it sooner, as I should have come to your rescue at once.’
Who acts: reward, you, I, your · What happens: break, think, suffer, wish, know, come · To what, where: heart, reward, rescue · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (reward, you, I, your), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 breaks | nsubj |
| 2 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 3 breaks | advmod |
| 3 | breaks | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 heart | nmod:poss |
| 5 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 breaks | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 think | mark |
| 7 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 breaks | advcl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 all | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 think | obl |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 suffered | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 suffered | aux |
| 12 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 all | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 wish | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 wish | cc |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 wish | nsubj |
| 16 | only | only | ADV | _ | 17 wish | advmod |
| 17 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 breaks | conj |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 known | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 known | aux |
| 20 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 wish | ccomp |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 known | obj |
| 22 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 known | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 come | punct |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 come | mark |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 come | nsubj |
| 26 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 come | aux |
| 27 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 come | aux |
| 28 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 known | parataxis |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 rescue | case |
| 30 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 rescue | nmod:poss |
| 31 | rescue | rescue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 come | obl |
| 32 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 once | case |
| 33 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 28 come | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 breaks | punct |
| 35 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 breaks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | present | reward | my heart | almost property | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer heart=Patient | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | reward not said here | of all | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | suffer | present · perfect | you | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | wish | present | I | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | know | past · perfect | I | reward | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | come | should · perfect | I | your rescue | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to rescue=Initial_Location | ||||
| 7 | rescue | your | nom rescue «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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