The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 77

‘If I were but at home again, or if home were but here!’ said Halvor, and no sooner had he wished this than it was granted.

Who acts: I, home, Halvor · What happens: be, say, have, wish, grant · To what, where: home, this · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, home, Halvor), 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	_	18 said	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	8 again	mark
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 again	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 again	cop
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 again	cc
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 home	case
7	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 again	obl
8	again	again	ADV	_	18 said	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 were	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 were	cc
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 were	mark
12	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 were	nsubj
13	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 again	conj
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 here	cc
15	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 again	conj
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 again	punct
17	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 again	punct
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	Halvor	Halvor	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 said	nsubj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 had	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 had	cc
22	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	23 sooner	det
23	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	24 had	advmod
24	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 said	conj
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 wished	nsubj
26	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 had	ccomp
27	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 wished	obj
28	than	than	SCONJ	_	31 granted	mark
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 granted	nsubj:pass
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 granted	aux:pass
31	granted	grant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 wished	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a condition, not said to happen	past	I		home	again property	tree rules
2	be a condition, not said to happen	past	home				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	Halvor				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	have	past	Halvor not said here			soon property	tree rules
5	wish	past	Halvor	this			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot this=Theme
6	grant	past · passive		home			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme

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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