The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 57
I wonder if you would be so good as just to put yourself in the coffin, and see if there is enough room.’
Who acts: I, you, enough room · What happens: wonder, be, put, see · To what, where: yourself, coffin
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, enough room), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 wonder | nsubj |
| 2 | wonder | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 good | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 good | nsubj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 good | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 good | cop |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 good | advmod |
| 8 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 wonder | ccomp |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 put | mark |
| 10 | just | just | ADV | _ | 12 put | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 put | mark |
| 12 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 wonder | advcl |
| 13 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 put | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 coffin | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 coffin | det |
| 16 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 put | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 see | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 see | cc |
| 19 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 put | advcl |
| 20 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 is | mark |
| 21 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 22 is | expl |
| 22 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 see | ccomp |
| 23 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 room | amod |
| 24 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 is | nsubj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wonder | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 wonder | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask | present | I | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | would | you | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | put | to-infinitive | I not said here | yourself | the coffin | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme in coffin=Destination | |||
| 4 | see | infinitive | I not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | be a condition, not said to happen | present | enough room | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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