The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 21

Ah! how nice it would be to be as pretty as that.’

Who acts: shepherdess · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shepherdess), 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	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	4 nice	discourse
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 nice	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 nice	advmod
4	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 pretty	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 pretty	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 pretty	cop
8	to	to	PART	_	11 pretty	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 pretty	cop
10	as	as	ADV	_	11 pretty	advmod
11	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 nice	conj
12	as	as	ADP	_	13 that	case
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 pretty	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 nice	punct
15	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 nice	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	shepherdess					as that; pretty property	tree rules

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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