The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 3, sentence 2

If you would only change me into a mouse too,’ cried the Princess.

Who acts: you · What happens: change, cry · To what, where: me, Princess

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, 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), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 change	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 change	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 change	aux
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 change	advmod
5	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 cried	advcl
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 change	obj
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 mouse	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 mouse	det
9	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 change	obl
10	too	too	ADV	_	5 change	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 change	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 cried	punct
13	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Princess	det
15	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 cried	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change a condition, not said to happen	would	you	me				into a mouse result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent i=Patient into mouse=Result
2	cry speech: express	past		the Princess					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Topic

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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