The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 93

‘Oh!’ he exclaimed, ‘if only the griffin were here, he would soon catch it.’

Who acts: man, griffin · What happens: exclaim, be, catch · To what, where: bird · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, griffin), 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 exclaimed	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	6 exclaimed	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 exclaimed	nsubj
6	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 catch	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 catch	punct
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 here	mark
10	only	only	ADV	_	12 griffin	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 griffin	det
12	griffin	griffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 here	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 here	cop
14	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 catch	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 here	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 catch	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 catch	aux
18	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 catch	advmod
19	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 exclaimed	ccomp
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 catch	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 catch	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 exclaimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	exclaim speech: express	past	man			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is a condition, not said to happen	past	the griffin		here property	tree rules
3	catch	would	man	bird	soon property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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