The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 39

This might have been all very well, had not Tiidu lived in dread that some day he would be asked to give proof of his marvellous swimming powers, and then everything would be found out.

Who acts: Tiidu · What happens: be, have, live, ask, give, find out · To what, where: dread, Tiidu, proof, everything, marvellous swimming powers

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tiidu), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 might	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 well	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 well	cop
5	all	all	ADV	_	7 well	advmod
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 well	advmod
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 had	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 well	punct
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 might	advcl
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 Tiidu	advmod
11	Tiidu	Tiidu	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 lived	nsubj
12	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 had	ccomp
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 dread	case
14	dread	dread	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lived	obl
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 asked	mark
16	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	17 day	det
17	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 asked	obl:unmarked
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 asked	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 asked	aux
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 asked	aux:pass
21	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 lived	advcl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 give	mark
23	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 asked	xcomp
24	proof	proof	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 give	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	29 powers	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 powers	nmod:poss
27	marvellous	marvellous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 powers	amod
28	swimming	swimming	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 powers	compound
29	powers	power	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 proof	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 found	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 found	cc
32	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	36 found	advmod
33	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	36 found	nsubj:pass
34	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 found	aux
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 found	aux:pass
36	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 asked	conj
37	out	out	ADP	_	36 found	compound:prt
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 might	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	infinitive · perfect					all, well property	tree rules
2	have	past						tree rules
3	live	past	Tiidu		dread			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in dread=Location
4	ask speech: ask	would · passive		Tiidu		day		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
5	give not said to happen	to-infinitive	Tiidu not said here	proof of Tiidu's marvellous swimming powers				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent proof=Theme
6	find out	would · passive		everything		then		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
7	proof			Tiidu's marvellous swimming powers				nom proof «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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