Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 9

If I had only such a little singing-bird, I'd be kind and good as a mother to him, for it's in my nature, in my Portuguese blood."

Who acts: I, art · What happens: have, be · To what, where: little singing bird, bird

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Portuguese Duck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, art), 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	_	3 had	mark
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	10 bird	advmod
5	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	10 bird	det:predet
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bird	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bird	amod
8	singing	singing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bird	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 singing	punct
10	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 kind	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 kind	nsubj
13	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 kind	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 kind	cop
15	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 had	parataxis
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 good	cc
17	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 kind	conj
18	as	as	ADP	_	20 mother	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 mother	det
20	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 kind	obl
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 kind	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 nature	punct
24	for	for	ADP	_	29 nature	case
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 nature	nsubj
26	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 nature	cop
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 nature	case
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 nature	nmod:poss
29	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 kind	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 blood	punct
31	in	in	ADP	_	34 blood	case
32	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 blood	nmod:poss
33	Portuguese	portuguese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 blood	amod
34	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 kind	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 kind	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	I	such little singing bird			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Patient
2	is	would	I		bird	as a mother; kind property	tree rules
3	be		I not said here				tree rules
4	is	present	art			for my nature	tree rules

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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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