English Fairy Tales, Cap O' Rushes, sentence 41

“Well, there,” says she, “I should ha' liked to ha' seen her.”

Who acts: I · What happens: say, ha, like, see · To what, where: dance · 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 (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	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	7 says	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 Well	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 says	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ha	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 ha	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 ha	nsubj
12	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 ha	aux
13	ha	ha	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 says	conj
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	15 liked	punct
15	liked	like	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 ha	advcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 ha	mark
17	ha	ha	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 liked	xcomp
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	19 seen	punct
19	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 ha	advcl
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 seen	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present		dance	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Topic
2	ha in a quote	should	I		tree rules
3	like in a quote	participle	I not said here		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	ha not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	I not said here		tree rules
5	see in a quote	participle	I not said here	dance	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

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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