The Green Fairy Book, Fairy Gifts, sentence 29

Oh! how glad I was to come away I cannot tell you.’

Who acts: I · What happens: come away, not tell · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Fairy Gifts. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	4 glad	discourse
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 glad	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 glad	advmod
4	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 come	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 come	aux
7	to	to	PART	_	8 come	mark
8	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 glad	ccomp
9	away	away	ADV	_	8 come	advmod
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 tell	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 tell	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 tell	advmod
13	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 glad	conj
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 tell	iobj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 glad	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 glad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come away	past	I					away property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not tell speech: assert	can	I		you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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