Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 23

But for him, the house would have been burned down.

What happens: burn down · To what, where: George

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	10 burned	cc
2	for	for	ADP	_	3 him	case
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 burned	nsubj:pass
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 him	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 house	det
6	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 burned	nsubj:pass
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 burned	aux
8	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 burned	aux
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 burned	aux:pass
10	burned	burn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	down	down	ADP	_	10 burned	compound:prt
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 burned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn down	would · perfect · passive		George					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme

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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