Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 162

Oh! would the black dog of the carcass of flesh were here!"

Who acts: black dog · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Sea-maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (black dog), 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	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	13 here	discourse
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Oh	punct
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 here	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dog	det
5	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dog	amod
6	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 here	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 carcass	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 carcass	det
9	carcass	carcass	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dog	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 flesh	case
11	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 carcass	nmod
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 here	cop
13	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	13 here	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 here	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	the black dog of the carcass of flesh					here 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: «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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