The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, sentence 16

‘If I had only known who it was,’ she said, ‘I would have done my best to make friends with her; now I suppose all is lost.’

Who acts: I, sulphur, Queen · What happens: know, be, say, do, make, suppose · To what, where: best, friends, all · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, sulphur, Queen), 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	_	13 said	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 known	mark
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 known	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 known	aux
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 known	advmod
6	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 said	advcl
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	6 known	ccomp
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 who	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 who	cop
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 known	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 known	punct
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 done	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 done	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 done	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 done	aux
18	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 done	aux
19	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 said	ccomp
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 best	nmod:poss
21	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 done	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 make	mark
23	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 done	advcl
24	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 make	obj
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 her	case
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 make	obl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 suppose	punct
28	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 suppose	advmod
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 suppose	nsubj
30	suppose	suppose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 said	ccomp
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 lost	nsubj:pass
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 lost	aux:pass
33	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 suppose	ccomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	know a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	I				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	past	sulphur				tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	Queen				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	do	would · perfect	I	my best			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality
5	make	to-infinitive	I not said here	friends		with Queen	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset friend=Product
6	suppose	present	I		now		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7	lose	present · passive		all			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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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