Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 243

If she had not come here," the old clerk added, "she would have had to go into the work-house."

Who acts: family · What happens: not come, add, have, go · To what, where: old clerk, work house · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (family), 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	_	5 come	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 come	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 come	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 come	advmod
5	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 come	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 clerk	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 clerk	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 clerk	amod
11	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	obl
12	added	add	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 clerk	acl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 had	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 had	punct
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 had	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 had	aux
17	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 had	aux
18	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 added	parataxis
19	to	to	PART	_	20 go	mark
20	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 had	xcomp
21	into	into	ADP	_	25 house	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 house	det
23	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 house	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 work	punct
25	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 go	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 clerk	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 clerk	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not come	past · perfect	family	the old clerk	here	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	add speech: assert in a quote	participle		the old clerk not said here		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have	would · perfect	family			tree rules
4	go	to-infinitive	family not said here		the work house	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into house=Initial_Location

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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