Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 160

He would have taken her for a boy, if it had not been for the long curls of black hair wound about her head.

Who acts: man, helm · What happens: take, have, not be · To what, where: girl

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 (man, helm), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 taken	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 taken	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 taken	aux
4	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 taken	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 boy	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 boy	det
8	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 taken	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 had	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 had	nsubj
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 taken	conj
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 curls	advmod
14	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 curls	cop
15	for	for	ADP	_	18 curls	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 curls	det
17	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 curls	amod
18	curls	curl	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 had	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 wound	case
20	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 wound	amod
21	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 wound	compound
22	wound	wound	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 curls	nmod
23	about	about	ADP	_	25 head	case
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 head	nmod:poss
25	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 wound	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 taken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take	would · perfect	man	girl	for a boy	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent she=Theme for boy=Beneficiary
2	have a condition, not said to happen	past	helm			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	not is	participle			for the long curls; of black hair wound about girl's head	tree rules

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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