The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 254

What a pretty figure I should cut if I went back into the world!’

Who acts: pretty figure, I · What happens: cut, go back · To what, where: world

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pretty figure, 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	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	4 figure	det:predet
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 figure	det
3	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 figure	amod
4	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cut	nsubj
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 cut	nsubj
6	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 cut	aux
7	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 went	mark
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 went	nsubj
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cut	advcl
11	back	back	ADV	_	10 went	advmod
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 world	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 world	det
14	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	obl
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 cut	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	should	what pretty figure						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	go back a condition, not said to happen	past	I			the world			vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient

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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