The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 52

‘Ah! if only I had such a thing!’ sighed Maie.

Who acts: I · What happens: have, sigh · To what, where: thing, Maie

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23. 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	7 had	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	7 had	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 only	mark
5	only	only	ADV	_	7 had	advcl
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 sighed	ccomp
8	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	10 thing	det:predet
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 thing	det
10	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obj
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 had	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 had	punct
13	sighed	sigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	Maie	Maie	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 sighed	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 sighed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	I	such thing					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient
2	sigh	past		Maie					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: «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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