Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 108

If he could have had his brothers with him, and his friend Thasus, and could have seen his dear mother under a roof of his own, he might here have been happy after all their disappointments.

Who acts: feeling, friend, brothers · What happens: have, see, be, disappoint · To what, where: brothers, dear mother, roof

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feeling, friend, brothers), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 had	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 had	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 had	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 had	aux
5	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 happy	advcl
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 brothers	nmod:poss
7	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 brothers	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 seen	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 seen	cc
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 friend	nmod:poss
13	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 seen	nsubj
14	Thasus	Thasus	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 friend	appos
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 seen	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 seen	cc
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 seen	aux
18	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 seen	aux
19	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 had	conj
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 mother	nmod:poss
21	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 mother	amod
22	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 seen	obj
23	under	under	ADP	_	25 roof	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 roof	det
25	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 seen	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 own	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 own	nmod:poss
28	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 roof	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 happy	nsubj
31	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 happy	aux
32	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 happy	advmod
33	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 happy	aux
34	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 happy	cop
35	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
36	after	after	ADP	_	39 disappointments	case
37	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	39 disappointments	det:predet
38	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 disappointments	nmod:poss
39	disappointments	disappointment	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 happy	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	35 happy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have a condition, not said to happen	could · perfect	feeling	feeling's brothers			with home	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Patient
2	see	could · perfect	feeling's friend	feeling's dear mother	a roof of feeling's own			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mother=Stimulus
3	is	might · perfect	feeling		here	after brothers's disappointments	happy property	tree rules
4	disappoint		brothers = brother					nom disappointment «feeling transitive»: poss=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: «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (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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