The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 76

Should I be so sad if I could but find her?

Who acts: I · What happens: be, find · To what, where: house

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine. 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	Should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 sad	aux
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 sad	nsubj
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 sad	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 sad	advmod
5	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 could	mark
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 could	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 sad	advcl
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 find	cc
10	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 sad	conj
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 find	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 sad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	should	I					sad property	tree rules
2	find	infinitive	I not said here	house					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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