English Fairy Tales, Mr. Vinegar, sentence 41

“Now if I had but those beautiful gloves I should be the happiest man alive.”

Who acts: cold · What happens: have, be · To what, where: beautiful gloves, happiest man

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 (cold), 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 had	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 had	advmod
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 had	mark
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 gloves	cc
7	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	9 gloves	det
8	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 gloves	amod
9	gloves	glove	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	obj
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 man	nsubj
11	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 man	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 man	cop
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 man	det
14	happiest	happy	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 man	amod
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obl
16	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 man	amod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 man	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	15 man	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	past	cold	that beautiful gloves			now		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glove=Patient
2	is a in a quote	should	cold	the happiest man					tree rules

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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