Celtic Fairy Tales, Gold-tree and Silver-tree, sentence 45

"Oh! indeed, nothing could make me laugh, except Gold-tree were to come alive again."

Who acts: nothing, gift · What happens: make, laugh, come · To what, where: gift

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Gold-tree and Silver-tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nothing, gift), 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	_	8 make	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	8 make	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	2 Oh	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 make	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 make	aux
8	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 make	obj
10	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 make	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 come	punct
12	except	except	ADP	_	15 tree	case
13	Gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tree	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 Gold	punct
15	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 come	obl
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 come	aux
17	to	to	PART	_	18 come	mark
18	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 make	conj
19	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 come	xcomp
20	again	again	ADV	_	18 come	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 make	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	make in a quote	could	nothing	gift			tree rules
2	laugh in a quote	infinitive	gift not said here				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	come in a quote	past	nothing not said here		again	except Gold tree; alive property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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