Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 75

To-morrow our little son would have been five years old if we had been permitted to keep him."

Who acts: little son · What happens: be, permit, keep · To what, where: we, son

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, 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 (little son), 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	To	to	ADP	_	3 morrow	case
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 To	punct
3	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 old	obl
4	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 son	nmod:poss
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 son	amod
6	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 old	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 old	aux
8	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 old	aux
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 old	cop
10	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 years	nummod
11	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 old	obl:unmarked
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 permitted	mark
14	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 permitted	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 permitted	aux
16	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 permitted	aux:pass
17	permitted	permit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 old	advcl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 keep	mark
19	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 permitted	advcl
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 keep	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 old	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 old	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	would · perfect	our little son		year	to morrow; old property	tree rules
2	permit a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		we			vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	keep	to-infinitive		son			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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