The Yellow Fairy Book, A Story About a Darning-needle, sentence 67

If I had my old eye which broke off, I believe I could weep; but I can’t--it is not fine to weep!’

Who acts: I, old eye · What happens: have, break off, believe, weep, not be · To what, where: old eye · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Story About a Darning-needle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, old eye), 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	_	3 had	mark
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 eye	nmod:poss
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 eye	amod
6	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 broke	nsubj
8	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 eye	acl:relcl
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 broke	compound:prt
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 believe	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 believe	nsubj
12	believe	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 weep	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 weep	aux
15	weep	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 believe	ccomp
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 fine	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 ca	cc
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 ca	nsubj
19	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 fine	aux
20	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 ca	advmod
21	--	--	PUNCT	_	25 fine	punct
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 fine	expl
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 fine	cop
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 fine	advmod
25	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 had	parataxis
26	to	to	PART	_	27 weep	mark
27	weep	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 fine	csubj
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	25 fine	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	I	my old eye		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
2	break off	past	my old eye			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	believe	present	I			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	weep	could	I			vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not is	can			fine property	tree rules
6	weep	to-infinitive				vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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