The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 126

Perhaps he might have been wise and happy if he had never had the chance of gratifying his wishes!

Who acts: father, chance · What happens: be, not have, gratify, wish · To what, where: chance, wishes

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, chance), 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	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	6 wise	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wise	nsubj
3	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 wise	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 wise	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 wise	cop
6	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 happy	cc
8	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wise	conj
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 had	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 had	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 had	aux
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 had	advmod
13	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 wise	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 chance	det
15	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	obj
16	of	of	SCONJ	_	17 gratifying	mark
17	gratifying	gratify	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 chance	acl
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 wishes	nmod:poss
19	wishes	wish	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 gratifying	obj
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 wise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	might · perfect	father		perhaps, wise property	tree rules
2	be		father not said here			tree rules
3	not have a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	father	the chance		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Patient
4	gratify	gerund	the chance not said here	father's wishes		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus wish=Experiencer
5	wish		father			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 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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