The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 54

‘Yes, if only I had it!’ sighed the old woman, still more deeply.

Who acts: I · What happens: have, sigh · To what, where: junket, old woman

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	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 had	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	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	11 sighed	advcl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 had	obj
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 had	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 had	punct
11	sighed	sigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 woman	det
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 woman	amod
14	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sighed	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 deeply	punct
16	still	still	ADV	_	18 deeply	advmod
17	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	18 deeply	advmod
18	deeply	deeply	ADV	_	11 sighed	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 sighed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	I	junket					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	sigh	past		the old woman				deeply property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Topic

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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