English Fairy Tales, The History of Tom Thumb, sentence 6

The poor woman said, with tears in her eyes: “I should be the happiest creature in the world if I had a son; although he was no bigger than my husband's thumb, I would be satisfied.”

Who acts: poor woman, Merlin · What happens: say, be, have, not be · To what, where: tears, eyes, happiest creature, world, son · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The History of Tom Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor woman, Merlin), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 woman	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 tears	punct
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 tears	case
7	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 said	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 eyes	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 eyes	nmod:poss
10	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 tears	nmod
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 creature	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 creature	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 creature	nsubj
14	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 creature	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 creature	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 creature	det
17	happiest	happy	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 creature	amod
18	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	ccomp
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 world	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 world	det
21	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 creature	nmod
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 had	mark
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 had	nsubj
24	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 son	det
26	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 had	obj
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 bigger	punct
28	although	although	SCONJ	_	32 bigger	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 bigger	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 bigger	cop
31	no	no	ADV	_	32 bigger	advmod
32	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 had	conj
33	than	than	ADP	_	37 thumb	case
34	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 husband	nmod:poss
35	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 thumb	nmod:poss
36	's	's	PART	_	35 husband	case
37	thumb	thumb	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 satisfied	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 thumb	punct
39	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 satisfied	nsubj
40	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 satisfied	aux
41	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	42 satisfied	cop
42	satisfied	satisfied	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 bigger	advcl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
44	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the poor woman	tears	woman's eyes		tree rules
2	is a in a quote	should	the poor woman = woman	the happiest creature	the world		tree rules
3	have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	the poor woman = woman	a son			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
4	not is in a quote	past	Merlin			big property	tree rules
5	is in a quote	would	the poor woman = woman			than my husband's thumb; satisfied property	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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