The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 4, sentence 53

If you could only know all I have suffered, and what a weary way I have come to seek you.’

Who acts: you, I · What happens: know, suffer, come, seek · To what, where: all, weary way, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 know	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 know	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 know	aux
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 know	advmod
5	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 know	obj
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 suffered	nsubj
8	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 suffered	aux
9	suffered	suffer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 all	acl:relcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 come	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 come	cc
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 come	obl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 way	det
14	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 way	amod
15	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 come	obl:unmarked
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 come	nsubj
17	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 come	aux
18	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 know	ccomp
19	to	to	PART	_	20 seek	mark
20	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 come	xcomp
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 seek	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 know	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	know	could	you	all	tree rules
2	suffer	present · perfect	I		vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	come	present · perfect	I	a weary way	tree rules
4	seek	to-infinitive	I not said here	you	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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