The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 42

‘I should be quite satisfied,’ said Maie, ‘if only I had thirty cows.

Who acts: I, Maie · What happens: be, say, have · To what, where: thirty cows · 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, Maie), 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=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Maie	Maie	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 had	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 had	punct
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 had	mark
14	only	only	ADV	_	16 had	advmod
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 had	nsubj
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
17	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 cows	nummod
18	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 had	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	should	I		satisfied property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Maie			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	have a condition, not said to happen	past	I	thirty cows		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=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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