The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 37

‘Ah!’ said his wife, ‘after all I’d rather not have all the riches in the world if I can’t know where they come from--I shall not have a moment’s peace.’

Who acts: I, riches, moment · What happens: say, have, not have, not know, come, pacify · To what, where: wife, riches, world, peace · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Lads. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, riches, moment), 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	_	5 said	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 wife	nmod:poss
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ’d	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 ’d	punct
10	after	after	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 ’d	obl
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 ’d	nsubj
13	’d	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
14	rather	rather	ADV	_	16 have	advmod
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 have	advmod
16	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 ’d	xcomp
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 riches	det:predet
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 riches	det
19	riches	rich	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 have	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 world	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 world	det
22	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 riches	nmod
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 know	mark
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 know	nsubj
25	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 know	aux
26	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 know	advmod
27	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 have	xcomp
28	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	30 come	advmod
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 come	nsubj
30	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 know	ccomp
31	from	from	ADP	_	30 come	obl
32	--	--	PUNCT	_	36 have	punct
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 have	nsubj
34	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 have	aux
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 have	advmod
36	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 know	conj
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 moment	det
38	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 peace	nmod:poss
39	’s	's	PART	_	38 moment	case
40	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 have	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
42	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		husband's wife			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wife=Topic
2	have	past	I			after all	tree rules
3	not have	infinitive	I not said here	all riches	the world		tree rules
4	not know a condition, not said to happen	can	I				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	come	present	riches = rich				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	not have	shall	I	a moment's peace			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Patient
7	pacify		a moment				nom peace «state transitive»: 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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