The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 39

‘Perhaps he would revive if I were to put him in that lovely cage,’ thought the youth.

Who acts: youth, I · What happens: revive, put, think · To what, where: youth, lovely cage · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Blackbird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 revive	punct
2	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	5 revive	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 revive	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 revive	aux
5	revive	revive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 thought	ccomp
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 put	mark
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 put	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 put	aux
9	to	to	PART	_	10 put	mark
10	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 revive	advcl
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 put	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 cage	case
13	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 cage	det
14	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 cage	amod
15	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 put	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 revive	punct
17	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 revive	punct
18	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 youth	det
20	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 thought	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	revive	would	youth			perhaps property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	put a condition, not said to happen	past	I	youth	that lovely cage		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in cage=Destination
3	think speech: other	past		the youth			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent youth=Attribute clause=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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