The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 6

If you had told it forty years ago truly you would not long have been lacking the spring-root.

Who acts: you · What happens: tell, lack · To what, where: you, secret, spring root · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 told	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	aux
4	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	obj
6	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 years	nummod
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 ago	obl:unmarked
8	ago	ago	ADV	_	4 told	advmod
9	truly	truly	ADV	_	16 lacking	advmod
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 lacking	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 lacking	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 long	advmod
13	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 lacking	advmod
14	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 lacking	aux
15	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 lacking	aux
16	lacking	lack	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 told	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 root	det
18	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 root	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 spring	punct
20	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lacking	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		you	secret			ago property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient it=Topic
2	lack	would · perfect · progressive	you	the spring root				long, truly property	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: «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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