The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 31
‘I should be quite satisfied,’ said his wife, ‘if only I had two servants to help, and if I had some finer clothes.
Who acts: I · What happens: be, say, have, help · To what, where: wife, two servants, finer clothes · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24. 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 | _ | 6 satisfied | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 satisfied | nsubj |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 satisfied | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 satisfied | cop |
| 5 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 6 satisfied | advmod |
| 6 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 satisfied | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 satisfied | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 wife | nmod:poss |
| 11 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 had | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 had | punct |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 had | mark |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 17 had | advmod |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 had | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 18 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 servants | nummod |
| 19 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 had | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 help | mark |
| 21 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 had | advcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 had | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 had | cc |
| 24 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 had | mark |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 had | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 27 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 29 clothes | det |
| 28 | finer | fine | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 29 clothes | amod |
| 29 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 26 had | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | should | I | satisfied property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Matte's wife | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wife=Topic | |||||
| 3 | have a condition, not said to happen | past | I | two servants | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Patient | ||||
| 4 | help | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | have a condition, not said to happen | past | I | some finer clothes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=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: «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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