The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 36
‘If I could but get up into the turret,’ she thought, ‘to see if any one is coming.’
Who acts: Stalk, one · What happens: get up, think, see, come · To what, where: turret · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Stalk, one), 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 | _ | 6 get | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 could | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 could | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 get | aux |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 get | cc |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 thought | ccomp |
| 7 | up | up | ADV | _ | 6 get | advmod |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 turret | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 turret | det |
| 10 | turret | turret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 get | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 get | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 get | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 thought | nsubj |
| 14 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 see | punct |
| 16 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 see | punct |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 see | mark |
| 18 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 thought | ccomp |
| 19 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 coming | mark |
| 20 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 one | det |
| 21 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 coming | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 coming | aux |
| 23 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 see | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 see | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up | could | the turret | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into turret=Destination | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Stalk | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | come a condition, not said to happen | present · progressive | any one | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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