Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Cornelia's Jewels., sentence 26

"Ah!" whis-pered the younger; "if our mother could only have such beautiful things!"

Who acts: mother · What happens: per, have · To what, where: such beautiful things

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Cornelia's Jewels.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother), 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	_	7 pered	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	7 pered	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
5	whis	whis	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pered	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 whis	punct
7	pered	per	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 younger	det
9	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 pered	obl:agent
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 pered	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 have	punct
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 have	mark
13	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 mother	nmod:poss
14	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 have	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 have	aux
16	only	only	ADV	_	17 have	advmod
17	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 pered	parataxis
18	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 things	amod
19	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 things	amod
20	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 have	obj
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	17 have	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	per	participle							tree rules
2	have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	could	our mother	such beautiful things					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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