The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 127
‘If thou didst but know as much as I know, thou wouldst fly in to me through the window,’ said the Princess to the dove.
Who acts: thou, I · What happens: do, know, fly in, say · To what, where: much, me, window, Princess, dove · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Farmer Weatherbeard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou, 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 | _ | 4 didst | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 didst | mark |
| 3 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 didst | nsubj |
| 4 | didst | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 said | parataxis |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 know | cc |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 didst | conj |
| 7 | as | as | ADV | _ | 8 much | advmod |
| 8 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 know | obj |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 know | mark |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 know | nsubj |
| 11 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 fly | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 know | punct |
| 13 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 fly | nsubj |
| 14 | wouldst | would | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 15 fly | aux |
| 15 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 know | parataxis |
| 16 | in | in | ADV | _ | 15 fly | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 me | case |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 fly | obl |
| 19 | through | through | ADP | _ | 21 window | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 window | det |
| 21 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fly | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 know | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 didst | punct |
| 24 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Princess | det |
| 26 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 said | obj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 dove | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 dove | det |
| 29 | dove | dove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 Princess | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do a condition, not said to happen | past | thou | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | know | present | thou not said here | much | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer much=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | fly in | would | thou | me | the window | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through window=Location | |||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | the Princess | the dove | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent princess=Topic to dove=Recipient |
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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