The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 19
‘Oh! if I were only big enough to sail away over the sea too!
Who acts: I · What happens: be, sail away · To what, where: sea
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 big | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 8 big | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 big | mark |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 big | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 big | cop |
| 7 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 big | advmod |
| 8 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 8 big | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 sail | mark |
| 11 | sail | sail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 big | advcl |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 sail | advmod |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 sea | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sea | det |
| 15 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sail | obl |
| 16 | too | too | ADV | _ | 11 sail | advmod |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 big | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | I | big, enough property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sail away | to-infinitive | I not said here | the sea | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over sea=Trajectory |
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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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