The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 172

You may imagine how perfectly happy they were, and how much they had to hear and to tell.

Who acts: You, trials · What happens: imagine, be, have, hear, tell · 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 (You, trials), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 imagine	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 imagine	aux
3	imagine	imagine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 happy	advmod
5	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	6 happy	advmod
6	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 imagine	ccomp
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 happy	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 happy	cop
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 much	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 much	cc
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	12 much	advmod
12	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 imagine	conj
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 much	ccomp
15	to	to	PART	_	16 hear	mark
16	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 had	xcomp
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 tell	cc
18	to	to	PART	_	19 tell	mark
19	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 hear	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 imagine	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	imagine	may	You		vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	is	past	trials = trial	happy, perfectly property	tree rules
3	have	past	trials = trial		tree rules
4	hear	to-infinitive	trials = trial not said here		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
5	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	trials = trial not said here		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «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 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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