The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 78

If I only could, I would glide up and down the ice there, as I saw the boys doing; but somehow or other, I don’t know how to run.’

Who acts: I, boys · What happens: glide, see, do, not know, run · To what, where: boys

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, boys), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	8 glide	mark
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 could	nsubj
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 could	advmod
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 glide	aux
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 could	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 glide	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 glide	aux
8	glide	glide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 know	advcl
9	up	up	ADV	_	8 glide	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 there	cc
11	down	down	ADP	_	13 ice	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ice	det
13	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 there	obl
14	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 up	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 saw	punct
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 saw	mark
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 saw	nsubj
18	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 glide	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 boys	det
20	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 saw	obj
21	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 boys	acl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 somehow	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 somehow	cc
24	somehow	somehow	ADV	_	8 glide	advmod
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 other	cc
26	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 somehow	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 glide	punct
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 know	nsubj
29	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 know	aux
30	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 know	advmod
31	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
32	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	34 run	advmod
33	to	to	PART	_	34 run	mark
34	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 know	xcomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 know	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	31 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	glide a condition, not said to happen	would	I		somehow property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	past	I	the boys		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boy=Stimulus
3	do	gerund	the boys not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not know	present · do-support	I			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	run	to-infinitive	I not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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