The Red Fairy Book, The Three Princesses of Whiteland, sentence 44

‘Would to heaven she were standing here, and then you would be able to see!’ said the young King, and in an instant she was standing there.

Who acts: Queen, you, young King · What happens: stand, be, see, say · To what, where: instant · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princesses of Whiteland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, you, young King), 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	_	7 standing	punct
2	Would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 standing	aux
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 heaven	case
4	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 standing	obl
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 standing	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 standing	aux
7	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 said	ccomp
8	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 standing	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 able	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 able	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 able	advmod
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 able	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 able	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 able	cop
15	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 standing	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 see	mark
17	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 able	xcomp
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 standing	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 standing	punct
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 King	det
22	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 King	amod
23	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 said	nsubj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 standing	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 standing	cc
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 instant	case
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 instant	det
28	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 standing	obl
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 standing	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 standing	aux
31	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 said	advcl
32	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 standing	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	would · progressive	Queen	here		to heaven	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	would	you		then	able property	tree rules
3	see	to-infinitive	you not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	say speech: assert	past	the young King				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	stand	past · progressive	Queen	a instant; there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in instant=Location

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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