The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 9

Anyone would have thought that when the old people had only one son left that at least they would have been kind to him, even if they did not love him.

Who acts: old people, one son, people · What happens: think, have, leave, be, not love · To what, where: Anyone, man, least · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old people, one son, people), 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	Anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 thought	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 thought	aux
4	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 left	mark
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 had	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 people	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 people	amod
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 left	advcl
11	only	only	ADV	_	12 one	advmod
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 son	nummod
13	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 left	nsubj
14	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	ccomp
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 kind	mark
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 least	case
17	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	22 kind	obl
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 kind	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 kind	aux
20	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 kind	aux
21	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 kind	cop
22	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 left	advcl
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 kind	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 love	punct
26	even	even	ADV	_	31 love	advmod
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	31 love	mark
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 love	nsubj
29	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 love	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 love	advmod
31	love	love	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 left	advcl
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 love	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	would · perfect · passive		Anyone				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme
2	have	past	the old people					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	leave	past	one son					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	would · perfect	people		man	least	kind property	tree rules
5	not love a condition, not said to happen	past · do-support	people	man				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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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