Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 72

If he succeeded, he would have to come a second time; but if not, he would lose his life,--and no one had ever been able to guess even one.

Who acts: John, one · What happens: succeed, have, come, lose, be, guess · To what, where: life, one

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (John, one), 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	_	3 succeeded	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 succeeded	nsubj
3	succeeded	succeed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 have	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 succeeded	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 have	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 have	aux
7	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 come	mark
9	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 have	xcomp
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 time	det
11	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 time	amod
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 come	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 lose	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 lose	cc
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 not	mark
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 lose	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 not	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 lose	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 lose	aux
20	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 have	conj
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 life	nmod:poss
22	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lose	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 lose	punct
24	--	--	PUNCT	_	31 able	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 able	cc
26	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	27 one	det
27	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 able	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 able	aux
29	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	31 able	advmod
30	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 able	cop
31	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 have	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 guess	mark
33	guess	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 able	xcomp
34	even	even	ADV	_	35 one	advmod
35	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 guess	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	succeed a condition, not said to happen	past	John				vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	have	would	John				tree rules
3	come	to-infinitive	John not said here		time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	lose	would	John	John's life			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Eventuality
5	is	past · perfect	no one		ever	able property	tree rules
6	guess	to-infinitive	no one not said here	one			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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