English Fairy Tales, Cap O' Rushes, sentence 33

“Well, I should have liked to have seen her,” says Cap o' Rushes.

Who acts: Cap Rushes · What happens: like, see, say · To what, where: lady · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Cap O' Rushes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cap Rushes), 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	_	14 says	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	7 liked	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 liked	nsubj
5	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 liked	aux
6	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 liked	aux
7	liked	like	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 says	ccomp
8	to	to	PART	_	10 seen	mark
9	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 seen	aux
10	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 liked	xcomp
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 seen	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 liked	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 liked	punct
14	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	Cap	cap	X	_	18 Rushes	amod
16	o	o	X	_	15 Cap	goeswith
17	'	's	PART	_	16 o	case
18	Rushes	rush	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 says	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	like in a quote	should · perfect	Cap Rushes = rush		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	see not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive · perfect	Cap Rushes = rush not said here	lady	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	present	Cap Rushes		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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