The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Snake, sentence 48

When the fox perceived this, he said: ‘If you only understood, as I do, what these little birds are saying, your pleasure would be even greater.’

Who acts: fox, you, I, little birds, pleasure, your · What happens: perceive, say, understand, do, be, please · To what, where: this · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fox, you, I, little birds), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 perceived	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fox	det
3	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 perceived	nsubj
4	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	advcl
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 perceived	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 perceived	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 understood	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 understood	punct
11	If	if	SCONJ	_	14 understood	mark
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 understood	nsubj
13	only	only	ADV	_	14 understood	advmod
14	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 do	punct
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 do	mark
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 do	nsubj
18	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 understood	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 saying	punct
20	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	25 saying	obj
21	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	23 birds	det
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 birds	amod
23	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 saying	nsubj
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 saying	aux
25	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 do	advcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 greater	punct
27	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 pleasure	nmod:poss
28	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 greater	nsubj
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 greater	aux
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 greater	cop
31	even	even	ADV	_	32 greater	advmod
32	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 saying	ccomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	perceive	past	the fox	this		vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	fox			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	understand a condition, not said to happen	past	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	do	present	I			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	say speech: assert	present · progressive	this little birds			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
6	is	would	your pleasure		great property	tree rules
7	please		your			nom pleasure «feeling 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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