The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 104

‘Oh! what wouldn’t I give to have a child as white as snow, as red as blood, and as black as ebony!’

Who acts: I · What happens: not give, have · To what, where: child

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. 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	_	4 what	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	4 what	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 give	aux
6	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 give	advmod
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 give	nsubj
8	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 what	acl:relcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 have	mark
10	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 give	xcomp
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 child	det
12	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 have	obj
13	as	as	ADP	_	14 white	case
14	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 child	amod
15	as	as	ADP	_	16 snow	case
16	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 white	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 red	punct
18	as	as	ADP	_	19 red	case
19	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 give	parataxis
20	as	as	ADP	_	21 blood	case
21	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 red	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 black	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 black	cc
24	as	as	ADV	_	25 black	advmod
25	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 red	parataxis
26	as	as	ADP	_	27 ebony	case
27	ebony	ebony	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 black	obl
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	25 black	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 what	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not give	would	I						tree rules
2	have	to-infinitive	I not said here	a child					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=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 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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