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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

nsubjauxccompcasenmod:possamodpunctcasepunctcompoundnmod:posscaseoblccnsubjauxconjobjcasenmod:possoblpunctrootSupposeVERBtheyPRONhadAUXfallenVERBintoADPherPRONgoodADJ-PUNCTforADP-PUNCTnothingPRONhusbandNOUN’sPARThandsNOUNandCCONJhePRONhadAUXhelpedVERBhimselfPRONtoADPherPRONtreasureNOUN!PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SupposesupposeVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Finrootroot
2theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs4 fallennsubj
3hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 fallenaux
4fallenfallVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part1 Supposeccomp
5intointoADP_14 handscase
6herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs14 handsnmod:poss
7goodgoodADJDegree=Pos14 handsamod
8--PUNCT_14 handspunct
9forforADP_14 handscase
10--PUNCT_9 forpunct
11nothingnothingPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Neg12 husbandcompound
12husbandhusbandNOUNNumber=Sing14 handsnmod:poss
13’s'sPART_12 husbandcase
14handshandNOUNNumber=Plur4 fallenobl
15andandCCONJ_18 helpedcc
16hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs18 helpednsubj
17hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin18 helpedaux
18helpedhelpVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part4 fallenconj
19himselfhimselfPRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes18 helpedobj
20totoADP_22 treasurecase
21herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs22 treasurenmod:poss
22treasuretreasureNOUNNumber=Sing18 helpedobl
23!!PUNCT_1 Supposepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1supposeimperativeyou not said herevn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2fallpast · perfectcontentsinto Wretch's good hands resultvn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into hand=Result
3helppast · perfectthoughtthoughtto Wretch's treasurevn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Beneficiary
4treasureWretchnom 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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