Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 98

I'd give something to be in your shoes."

Who acts: I · What happens: give, be · To what, where: something, shoes

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary. 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	3 give	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 give	aux
3	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 give	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	9 shoes	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 shoes	cop
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 shoes	case
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 shoes	nmod:poss
9	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 something	appos
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 give	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	would	I	something					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme
2	is	to-infinitive				your shoes			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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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