Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 54
"I would go if I had a new dress to wear."
Who acts: henwife · What happens: go, have, wear · To what, where: new dress
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fair, Brown, and Trembling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (henwife), 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 | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 go | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 had | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 had | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | advcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 dress | det |
| 9 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 dress | amod |
| 10 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 wear | mark |
| 12 | wear | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 dress | acl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | would | the henwife = henwife | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | the henwife = henwife | a new dress | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dress=Patient | ||||
| 3 | wear in a quote | to-infinitive | the henwife = henwife not said here | a new dress not said here | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
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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