Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 71

"If he had had a better position, and been able to keep a workshop and journeymen," the porter's wife said, "he might have been a court tailor."

Who acts: tailor, wife · What happens: have, be, keep, say · To what, where: better position, workshop, court tailor · Speech: someone speaks here

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: who acts (tailor, wife), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 had	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 had	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 had	aux
5	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 position	det
7	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 position	amod
8	position	position	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 able	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 able	cc
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 able	cop
12	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 had	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 keep	mark
14	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 able	xcomp
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 workshop	det
16	workshop	workshop	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 keep	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 journeymen	cc
18	journeymen	journeyman	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 workshop	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 said	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 said	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 porter	det
22	porter	porter	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 wife	nmod:poss
23	's	's	PART	_	22 porter	case
24	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 said	nsubj
25	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 keep	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 tailor	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 tailor	punct
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 tailor	nsubj
29	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 tailor	aux
30	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 tailor	aux
31	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 tailor	cop
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 tailor	det
33	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 tailor	compound
34	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 said	ccomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	past · perfect	tailor	a better position		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent position=Patient
2	is in a quote	participle	tailor not said here		able property	tree rules
3	keep in a quote	to-infinitive	tailor not said here	a workshop and journeymen		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent workshop=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	the porter's wife			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is a in a quote	might · perfect	tailor	a court tailor		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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