Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 56

I would have plucked them already if they had not been so big."

Who acts: I, birds · What happens: pluck, not be · To what, where: birds

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, birds), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 plucked	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 plucked	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 plucked	aux
4	plucked	pluck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 plucked	obj
6	already	already	ADV	_	4 plucked	advmod
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 big	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 big	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 big	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 big	advmod
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 big	cop
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 big	advmod
13	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 plucked	advcl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 plucked	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 plucked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pluck	would · perfect	I	birds = bird					vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
2	not is	past · perfect	birds = bird					big 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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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