The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 54

‘Oh! if I could only think of some way of escaping.’

Who acts: I, way · What happens: think, escape

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, way), 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	_	8 think	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	8 think	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 think	mark
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 think	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 think	aux
7	only	only	ADV	_	8 think	advmod
8	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 way	case
10	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	11 way	det
11	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 think	obl
12	of	of	SCONJ	_	13 escaping	mark
13	escaping	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 way	acl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 think	punct
15	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	could	I					of some way	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	escape	gerund	some way not said here						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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