The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 100
‘O lovely princess, if you only knew what I have gone through to find you!’
Who acts: you, I · What happens: know, go through, find · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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 | _ | 4 princess | punct |
| 2 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 4 princess | discourse |
| 3 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 princess | amod |
| 4 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 knew | punct |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 knew | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 knew | nsubj |
| 8 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 knew | advmod |
| 9 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 princess | conj |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 gone | obj |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 gone | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 gone | aux |
| 13 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 knew | ccomp |
| 14 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 gone | obl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 find | mark |
| 16 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 gone | advcl |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 find | obj |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 princess | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 princess | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | go through | present · perfect | I | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location what=Theme | |||||
| 3 | find | to-infinitive | I not said here | you | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic |
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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