The Yellow Fairy Book, The White Duck, sentence 62
Would I were the Queen again; Would that you had never been slain.’
Who acts: I, you · What happens: be, not be · To what, where: Queen, slain
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Duck. 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), 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 | Would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 Queen | aux |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 Queen | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Queen | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Queen | det |
| 5 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 Queen | advmod |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 slain | punct |
| 8 | Would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 slain | aux |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 slain | mark |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 slain | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 slain | aux |
| 12 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 slain | advmod |
| 13 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 slain | cop |
| 14 | slain | slain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Queen | appos |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 slain | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 slain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | would | I | the Queen | again | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not is a | would · perfect | you | slain | tree rules |
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.
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