More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 123

The farmer really thought he should have died with fright, and so perhaps he would had not curiosity kept him alive.

Who acts: farmer, curiosity · What happens: think, die, have, not keep · To what, where: farmer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (farmer, curiosity), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 farmer	det
2	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thought	nsubj
3	really	really	ADV	_	4 thought	advmod
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 died	nsubj
6	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 died	aux
7	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 died	aux
8	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 thought	ccomp
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 fright	case
10	fright	fright	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 died	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 had	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 had	cc
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 perhaps	advmod
14	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	17 had	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 had	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 had	aux
17	had	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 thought	ccomp
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 kept	advmod
19	curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 kept	nsubj
20	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 had	advcl
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 kept	obj
22	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 kept	xcomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the farmer			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	die	should · perfect	farmer		with fright	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	have	would	farmer		perhaps property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	not keep	past	curiosity	farmer	alive property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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