Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Little Brother and Sister, sentence 23

Had but the Brother regained his own proper form, their lives would have been happy indeed.

Who acts: Brother, lives · What happens: have, regain, be, form · To what, where: own proper form

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Little Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brother, lives), 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	Had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 regained	cc
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Brother	det
4	Brother	Brother	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 regained	nsubj
5	regained	regain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Had	conj
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 form	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 form	amod
8	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 form	amod
9	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 regained	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 happy	punct
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 lives	nmod:poss
12	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 happy	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 happy	aux
14	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 happy	aux
15	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 happy	cop
16	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 regained	parataxis
17	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	16 happy	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	regain	past	the Brother	brother's own proper form		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme
3	is	would · perfect	prayers's lives		happy, indeed property	tree rules
4	form		brother			nom form «communication 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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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