The Green Fairy Book, The Snuff-box, sentence 15

‘You would like to have one like it, wouldn’t you?’

Who acts: You · What happens: like, have · To what, where: one

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Snuff-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You), 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 like	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 like	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 like	aux
4	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 have	mark
6	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 like	xcomp
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 have	obj
8	like	like	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 one	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 would	punct
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 like	conj
12	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 would	advmod
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 would	nsubj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct
15	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	would	You						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	have not said to happen	to-infinitive	You not said here	one				like castle	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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 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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