Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 104

It would have been dead long ago, if I had not seen that you thought so much of it."

Who acts: plant, I, you · What happens: be, not see, think · To what, where: much

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Antonio Canova.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (plant, I, you), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dead	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 dead	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 dead	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 dead	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 ago	advmod
7	ago	ago	ADV	_	5 dead	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 seen	punct
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 seen	mark
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 seen	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 seen	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 seen	advmod
13	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 dead	conj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 thought	mark
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 thought	nsubj
16	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 seen	advcl
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 much	advmod
18	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 thought	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 much	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 dead	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 dead	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	would · perfect	plant		ago, dead property	tree rules
2	not see a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	I			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	think speech: other	past	you	much of plant		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot much=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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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