More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 30

But I would give all my worldly goods if I could but see her once before I die."

Who acts: I · What happens: give, see, die · To what, where: worldly goods, child

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 give	cc
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 give	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 give	aux
4	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 goods	det:predet
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 goods	nmod:poss
7	worldly	worldly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 goods	amod
8	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	4 give	obj
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 could	mark
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 could	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 give	advcl
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 see	cc
13	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 give	conj
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 see	obj
15	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	13 see	advmod
16	before	before	SCONJ	_	18 die	mark
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 die	nsubj
18	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 see	advcl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	give	would	I	my worldly goods		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goods=Theme
2	see	infinitive	I not said here	child	once property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
3	die	present	I			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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