The Blue Fairy Book, Why the Sea Is Salt, sentence 47

“Would to heaven that each of you had a hundred stomachs!

Who acts: each · What happens: have · To what, where: hundred stomachs

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Why the Sea Is Salt. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (each), 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	_	2 Would	punct
2	Would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 heaven	case
4	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Would	obl
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 had	mark
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	9 had	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 you	case
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 each	nmod
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Would	advcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 hundred	det
11	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 stomachs	nummod
12	stomachs	stomach	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 had	obj
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Would	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	past	each	hundred stomachs					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stomach=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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