The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 137
‘I feel as if I were the daughter of some great king.’
Who acts: I · What happens: feel, be · To what, where: daughter
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 feel | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 feel | nsubj |
| 3 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 daughter | mark |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 daughter | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 daughter | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 daughter | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 daughter | det |
| 9 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 feel | ccomp |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 king | case |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 king | det |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 king | amod |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 daughter | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 feel | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 feel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present | I | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | is a a condition, not said to happen | past | I | the daughter | of some great king | 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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