The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3, sentence 23
‘What could possibly happen if I did?’ she said to herself.
Who acts: I, Graciosa · What happens: happen, do, say · To what, where: Graciosa · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Graciosa), 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 | _ | 5 happen | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 happen | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 happen | aux |
| 4 | possibly | possibly | ADV | _ | 5 happen | advmod |
| 5 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 did | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 did | nsubj |
| 8 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 happen | advcl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 happen | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 happen | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 herself | case |
| 14 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 said | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | could | possibly property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | do a condition, not said to happen | past | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Graciosa | Graciosa | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient whether/if S»: agent=Pivot to herself=Experiencer clause=Topic |
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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