The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 142
‘Now, if it were only me!’
Who acts: sack · What happens: be · To what, where: me
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sack), 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 me | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 me | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 me | mark |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 me | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 me | cop |
| 7 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 me | advmod |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | root | root |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 me | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 me | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | sack | me | now | tree rules |
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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