English Fairy Tales, Mr. Vinegar, sentence 50

I should then be the happiest man alive.”

Who acts: I · What happens: be · To what, where: 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 (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 man	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 man	aux
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 man	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 man	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	happiest	happy	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 man	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 man	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	should	I	the happiest man			then		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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