The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 109

‘If only these oranges were real fruit—fruit as refreshing as what I ate in Flanders!

Who acts: oranges, fruit, I · What happens: be, refresh, eat · To what, where: real fruit, Flanders

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (oranges, fruit, I), 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	_	8 fruit	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 oranges	mark
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 oranges	advmod
4	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 oranges	det
5	oranges	orange	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fruit	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 fruit	cop
7	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fruit	amod
8	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	—	-	PUNCT	_	10 fruit	punct
10	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fruit	conj
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 refreshing	mark
12	refreshing	refresh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 fruit	acl
13	as	as	ADP	_	14 what	case
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 refreshing	obl
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 ate	nsubj
16	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 what	acl:relcl
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 Flanders	case
18	Flanders	flander	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 ate	obl
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 fruit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	this oranges	real fruit and fruit			tree rules
2	refresh	gerund	fruit not said here			as fruit	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	eat	past	I		Flanders		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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