The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 44

Ah, if only the little lady were sitting beside me in the boat, it might be twice as dark for all I should care!’

Who acts: little lady, boat, I · What happens: sit, be, care · To what, where: boat

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Steadfast Tin-soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little lady, boat, 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	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	21 dark	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ah	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 sitting	mark
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 lady	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lady	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lady	amod
7	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sitting	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sitting	aux
9	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Ah	advcl
10	beside	beside	ADP	_	11 me	case
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 sitting	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 boat	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 boat	det
14	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sitting	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ah	punct
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 dark	nsubj
17	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 dark	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 dark	cop
19	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	21 dark	advmod
20	as	as	ADV	_	21 dark	advmod
21	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
22	for	for	ADP	_	23 all	case
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 dark	obl
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 care	nsubj
25	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 care	aux
26	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 all	acl:relcl
27	!	!	PUNCT	_	21 dark	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	21 dark	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	sit a condition, not said to happen	past · progressive	the little lady	the boat	beside me	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside i=Location
2	is	might	boat		for all; dark, twice property	tree rules
3	care	should	I			vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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