The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3, sentence 52

‘Oh, Percinet! if you only knew how I am suffering for my want of trust in you!

Who acts: you, I, my · What happens: know, suffer, want · To what, where: trust

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 (you, I, my), 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	_	9 knew	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	9 knew	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	Percinet	Percinet	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Oh	vocative
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 knew	mark
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 knew	nsubj
8	only	only	ADV	_	9 knew	advmod
9	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	13 suffering	advmod
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 suffering	nsubj
12	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 suffering	aux
13	suffering	suffer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 knew	advcl
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 want	case
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 want	nmod:poss
16	want	want	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 suffering	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 trust	case
18	trust	trust	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 want	nmod
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 you	case
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 suffering	obl
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	past	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	suffer	present · progressive	I		for my want of trust; in you	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	want		my	trust		nom want «state transitive»: poss=agent of=patient

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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