The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 69

If all the fields in my kingdom were as well cared for as this, there would be more bread than my people could eat.”

Who acts: more bread · What happens: care, be · To what, where: fields

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (more bread), 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	_	11 cared	mark
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 fields	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fields	det
4	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 cared	nsubj:pass
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 kingdom	case
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 kingdom	nmod:poss
7	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fields	nmod
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 cared	aux:pass
9	as	as	ADV	_	10 well	advmod
10	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 cared	advmod
11	cared	care	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 be	advcl
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 this	case
13	as	as	ADP	_	14 this	case
14	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 cared	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 cared	punct
16	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	18 be	expl
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 be	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 eat	cop
19	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 bread	amod
20	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 eat	nsubj
21	than	than	ADP	_	23 people	case
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 people	nmod:poss
23	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 bread	nmod
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 eat	aux
25	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 eat	punct
27	”	"	PUNCT	_	25 eat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	care a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		all fields in my kingdom				for this; well property	tree rules
2	is	could · infinitive	more bread than my people					eat 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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