The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 112

My wife saw your rampion from her window, and conceived such a desire for it that she would certainly have died if her wish had not been gratified.’

Who acts: wife · What happens: see, conceive, die, not gratify, wish · To what, where: rampion, window, desire, wish

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife), 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 wife	nmod:poss
2	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 rampion	nmod:poss
5	rampion	rampion	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 window	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 window	nmod:poss
8	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 conceived	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 conceived	cc
11	conceived	conceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	conj
12	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	14 desire	det:predet
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 desire	det
14	desire	desire	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 conceived	obj
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 conceived	obl
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 died	mark
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 died	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 died	aux
20	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	22 died	advmod
21	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 died	aux
22	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 conceived	advcl
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 gratified	mark
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 wish	nmod:poss
25	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 gratified	nsubj:pass
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 gratified	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 gratified	advmod
28	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 gratified	aux:pass
29	gratified	gratify	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 died	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct
31	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	My wife	your rampion	wife's window		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rampion=Stimulus
2	conceive	past	My wife not said here	such desire		for rampion	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desire=Theme
3	die	would · perfect	wife			certainly property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	not gratify a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		wife's wish			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
5	wish		wife				nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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