The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 2

‘Oh! if I were only a great tree like the others!’ sighed the little fir-tree, ‘then I could stretch out my branches far and wide and look out into the great world!

Who acts: I, great tree · What happens: be, sigh, stretch out, look out · To what, where: great tree, little fir tree, branches, great world

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, great tree), 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	_	10 tree	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	10 tree	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 tree	mark
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 tree	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 tree	cop
7	only	only	ADV	_	10 tree	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 tree	det
9	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tree	amod
10	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sighed	nsubj
11	like	like	ADP	_	13 others	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 others	det
13	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 tree	nmod
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 tree	punct
15	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 tree	punct
16	sighed	sigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 tree	det
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 tree	amod
19	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tree	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 fir	punct
21	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sighed	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sighed	punct
23	‘	'	PUNCT	_	27 stretch	punct
24	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 stretch	advmod
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 stretch	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 stretch	aux
27	stretch	stretch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 sighed	parataxis
28	out	out	ADP	_	27 stretch	compound:prt
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 branches	nmod:poss
30	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 stretch	obj
31	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 stretch	advmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 wide	cc
33	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 far	conj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 look	cc
35	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 stretch	conj
36	out	out	ADP	_	35 look	compound:prt
37	into	into	ADP	_	40 world	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 world	det
39	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 world	amod
40	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 look	obl
41	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 sighed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a a condition, not said to happen	past	I	a great tree			like the others	tree rules
2	sigh	past	a great tree	the little fir tree				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Topic
3	stretch out	could	I	my branches		then	far property	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent branch=Patient
4	look out	infinitive	I not said here		the great world			vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: 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 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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