Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 204

Even if thou couldst return, and at least produce so much, very likely, when made, the brick would be useless, unless done with a good will, which is always something.

Who acts: thou, brick · What happens: return, make, be, do · To what, where: produce, something

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou, brick), 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	Even	even	ADV	_	5 return	advmod
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 return	mark
3	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	5 return	nsubj
4	couldst	could	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	5 return	aux
5	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 produce	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 produce	cc
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 least	case
9	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 produce	nmod
10	produce	produce	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 return	obl
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 much	advmod
12	much	much	ADV	_	5 return	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 made	punct
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 likely	advmod
15	likely	likely	ADV	_	18 made	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 made	punct
17	when	when	SCONJ	_	18 made	mark
18	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 return	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 useless	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 brick	det
21	brick	brick	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 useless	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 useless	aux
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 useless	cop
24	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 made	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 done	punct
26	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	27 done	mark
27	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 useless	conj
28	with	with	SCONJ	_	31 will	mark
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 good	det
30	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 will	nsubj
31	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 done	advcl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 something	punct
33	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 something	nsubj
34	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 something	cop
35	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	36 something	advmod
36	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	24 useless	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 return	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	return	could	thou	produce at least		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	make	participle	thou not said here		likely property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	is	would	the brick		useless property	tree rules
4	do a condition, not said to happen	participle	the brick not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	present		something	always 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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