The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 72
Suppose they had fallen into her good-for-nothing husband’s hands and he had helped himself to her treasure!
Who acts: you, contents, thought, Wretch · What happens: suppose, fall, help, treasure · To what, where: good hands, thought · 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, contents, thought, Wretch), 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 | Suppose | suppose | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fallen | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fallen | aux |
| 4 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 1 Suppose | ccomp |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 hands | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 hands | nmod:poss |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 hands | amod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 hands | punct |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 hands | case |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 for | punct |
| 11 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 12 husband | compound |
| 12 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hands | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 husband | case |
| 14 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fallen | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 helped | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 helped | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 helped | aux |
| 18 | helped | help | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 fallen | conj |
| 19 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 helped | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 treasure | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 treasure | nmod:poss |
| 22 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 helped | obl |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Suppose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suppose | imperative | you not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fall | past · perfect | contents | into Wretch's good hands result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into hand=Result | ||||
| 3 | help | past · perfect | thought | thought | to Wretch's treasure | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | treasure | Wretch | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
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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