The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 95
Upon my word, if I could be sure of finding some one every day whose head was as soft as his heart, I wouldn’t wish for a more agreeable life myself!
Who acts: I, head, my · What happens: be, find, not wish, word · To what, where: one, myself
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, head, my), 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 | Upon | upon | ADP | _ | 3 word | case |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 word | nmod:poss |
| 3 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 wish | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sure | punct |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 sure | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 sure | nsubj |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 sure | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 sure | cop |
| 9 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 word | parataxis |
| 10 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 11 finding | mark |
| 11 | finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 sure | advcl |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 one | det |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 finding | obj |
| 14 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 day | det |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 finding | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 17 head | nmod:poss |
| 17 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 soft | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 soft | cop |
| 19 | as | as | ADV | _ | 20 soft | advmod |
| 20 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 day | acl:relcl |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 heart | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 heart | nmod:poss |
| 23 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 soft | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 word | punct |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 wish | nsubj |
| 26 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 wish | aux |
| 27 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 wish | advmod |
| 28 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 life | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 life | det |
| 31 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 32 agreeable | advmod |
| 32 | agreeable | agreeable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 life | amod |
| 33 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 wish | obl |
| 34 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 28 wish | obl:unmarked |
| 35 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 28 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a condition, not said to happen | could | I | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find | gerund | I not said here | some one | day | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic | |||
| 3 | is | past | head | as money's heart; soft property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not wish | would | I | myself | upon my word; for a agreeable life | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for life=Theme | |||
| 5 | word | my | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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