English Fairy Tales, Mr. Vinegar, sentence 30
“Well,” thought Mr. Vinegar, “if I had but that beautiful instrument I should be the happiest man alive--my fortune would be made.”
Who acts: Vinegar, beautiful instrument · What happens: think, have, be, make · To what, where: happiest man, fortune · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Mr. Vinegar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vinegar, beautiful instrument), 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 thought | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 thought | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 5 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Vinegar | nmod:desc |
| 7 | Vinegar | Vinegar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 thought | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 had | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 had | punct |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 had | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 had | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thought | parataxis |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 man | cc |
| 14 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 instrument | det |
| 15 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 instrument | amod |
| 16 | instrument | instrument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 man | nsubj |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 man | nsubj |
| 18 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 man | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 man | cop |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 man | det |
| 21 | happiest | happy | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 22 man | amod |
| 22 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obj |
| 23 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 man | amod |
| 24 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 29 made | punct |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 26 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 made | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 made | aux |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 made | aux:pass |
| 29 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 had | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 thought | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Vinegar Mr. | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | Vinegar Mr. = vinegar | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | should | that beautiful instrument | the happiest man | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | make in a quote | would · passive | my fortune | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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