The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 5, sentence 5
If you only liked, Princess, you could save me.
Who acts: you · What happens: like, save · To what, where: Princess, me
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), 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 (you), 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 | _ | 4 liked | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 liked | nsubj |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 liked | advmod |
| 4 | liked | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 save | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Princess | punct |
| 6 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 liked | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 liked | punct |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 save | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 save | aux |
| 10 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 save | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 save | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like a condition, not said to happen | past | you | Princess | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot princess=Theme | ||||
| 2 | save | could | you | me | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/18/5/