The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 132

Why, child, I wonder you could walk under such a weight, and certainly in my house you would not have had room to turn round.’

Who acts: I, you · What happens: wonder, walk, not have, turn round · To what, where: child, weight, room · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine. 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 child	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 child	punct
3	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wonder	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 child	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 wonder	nsubj
6	wonder	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 walk	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 walk	aux
9	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 wonder	ccomp
10	under	under	ADP	_	13 weight	case
11	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	13 weight	det:predet
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 weight	det
13	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 walk	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 house	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 house	cc
16	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	19 house	advmod
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 house	case
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 house	nmod:poss
19	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wonder	parataxis
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 had	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 had	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 had	advmod
23	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 had	aux
24	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 house	parataxis
25	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 had	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 turn	mark
27	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 room	acl
28	round	round	ADV	_	27 turn	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 wonder	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 wonder	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wonder speech: ask	present	I	child			vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	walk	could	you		such weight		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under weight=Trajectory
3	not have	would · perfect	you	room			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Patient
4	turn round	to-infinitive	you not said here	room not said here		round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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 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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