Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 74

I wish there were any likelihood of my soon seeing Primrose, Periwinkle, Dandelion, Sweet Fern, Clover Plantain, Huckleberry, Milkweed, Cowslip, Buttercup, Blue Eye, and Squash Blossom again.

Who acts: I, likelihood · What happens: wish, be, see · To what, where: Primrose · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Wayside. Introductory.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, likelihood), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 wish	nsubj
2	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 were	expl
4	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wish	ccomp
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 likelihood	det
6	likelihood	likelihood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 were	nsubj
7	of	of	SCONJ	_	10 seeing	mark
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 seeing	nmod:poss
9	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 seeing	advmod
10	seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 likelihood	acl
11	Primrose	Primrose	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 seeing	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Periwinkle	punct
13	Periwinkle	Periwinkle	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Primrose	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Dandelion	punct
15	Dandelion	Dandelion	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Primrose	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Fern	punct
17	Sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Fern	amod
18	Fern	Fern	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Primrose	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Plantain	punct
20	Clover	Clover	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Plantain	compound
21	Plantain	Plantain	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Primrose	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 Huckleberry	punct
23	Huckleberry	Huckleberry	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Primrose	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 Milkweed	punct
25	Milkweed	Milkweed	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Primrose	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Cowslip	punct
27	Cowslip	cowslip	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Primrose	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 Buttercup	punct
29	Buttercup	Buttercup	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Primrose	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 Eye	punct
31	Blue	Blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 Eye	amod
32	Eye	Eye	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Primrose	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 Blossom	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 Blossom	cc
35	Squash	Squash	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 Blossom	compound
36	Blossom	Blossom	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Primrose	conj
37	again	again	ADV	_	10 seeing	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wish	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wish	present	I					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	be	past	any likelihood		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	see	gerund	any likelihood not said here	Primrose and Periwinkle and Dandelion and Sweet Fern and Clover Plantain and Huckleberry and Milkweed and Cowslip and Buttercup and Blue Eye and Squash Blossom		again	soon property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer primrose=Stimulus

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/2/74/