The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 9
‘If only I had enjoyed myself whilst I could.
Who acts: I · What happens: enjoy · To what, where: myself
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12. 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 | _ | 6 enjoyed | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 enjoyed | mark |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 enjoyed | advmod |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 enjoyed | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 enjoyed | aux |
| 6 | enjoyed | enjoy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 enjoyed | obj |
| 8 | whilst | whilst | SCONJ | _ | 10 could | mark |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 could | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 enjoyed | advcl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 enjoyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enjoy | past · perfect | I | myself | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer myself=Stimulus |
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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