The Violet Fairy Book, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, sentence 67

‘Idiot!’ cried she, ‘if you had only brought me one of the roses, or a handful of earth, I should have had them in my power.

Who acts: Idiot, you, I · What happens: cry, bring, have · To what, where: wife, one, me, homewards, power

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Idiot, you, 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	_	2 Idiot	punct
2	Idiot	idiot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cried	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Idiot	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Idiot	punct
5	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cried	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 brought	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 brought	punct
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 brought	mark
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 brought	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 brought	aux
12	only	only	ADV	_	13 brought	advmod
13	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 cried	conj
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 brought	obj
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 brought	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 roses	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 roses	det
18	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 one	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 handful	punct
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 handful	cc
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 handful	det
22	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cried	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 earth	case
24	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 handful	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 had	punct
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 had	nsubj
27	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 had	aux
28	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 had	aux
29	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 cried	parataxis
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 had	obj
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 power	case
32	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 power	nmod:poss
33	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 had	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Idiot	wife			a handful of earth obl	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic
2	bring a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	you	one of the roses	me			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination one=Theme
3	have	should · perfect	I	homewards = homeward		my power		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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