--- title: “Well,” thought Mr. Vinegar, “if I had but that beautiful instrument… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “Well,” thought Mr. Vinegar, “if I had but that beautiful instrument I should be the happiest man alive--my fortune would be made.” Who acts: Vinegar, beautiful instrument. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Mr. Vinegar, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/11/30/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/) / [Mr. Vinegar](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/11/) / 30 # English Fairy Tales, Mr. Vinegar, sentence 30 “Well,” thought Mr. Vinegar, “if I had but that beautiful instrument I should be the happiest man alive--my fortune would be made.” **Who acts:** Vinegar, beautiful instrument · **What happens:** think, have, be, make · **To what, where:** happiest man, fortune · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Mr. Vinegar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vinegar, beautiful instrument), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7439:11:30 # text = “Well,” thought Mr. Vinegar, “if I had but that beautiful instrument I should be the happiest man alive--my fortune would be made.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Well well INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ” " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 5 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 Mr. Mr. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod:desc _ _ 7 Vinegar Vinegar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 “ " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 if if SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 11 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 13 but but CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 14 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 16 det _ _ 15 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 instrument instrument NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 17 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 18 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 19 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 22 cop _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 happiest happy ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 22 amod _ _ 22 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 23 alive alive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 -- -- PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 fortune fortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj:pass _ _ 27 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 28 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 29 aux:pass _ _ 29 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ” " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Vinegar Mr. | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past | Vinegar Mr. *= vinegar* | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | should | that beautiful instrument | the happiest man | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **make** *in a quote* | would · passive | | my fortune | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | 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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/11/29/) - next →: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/11/31/) - ↑ back to [Mr. Vinegar](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/11/)