Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 165

Would that the falcon grey, of sharpest eye and swiftest wing, were here!"

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: 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	Would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 grey	aux
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 grey	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 falcon	det
4	falcon	falcon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grey	nsubj
5	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 here	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 eye	punct
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 eye	case
8	sharpest	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 eye	amod
9	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grey	appos
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 wing	cc
11	swiftest	swift	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 wing	amod
12	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 eye	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 eye	punct
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 here	cop
15	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	15 here	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 here	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						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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