The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 80

But let me repeat; had it not been for you I could not have escaped death, and if I can do anything to help you, or soften your hard fate, you have only to tell me.'

Who acts: you, me, I, your · What happens: let, repeat, have, not be, not escape, do · To what, where: me, cap, death, anything, you, hard fate · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, me, I, your), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	2 let	cc
2	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 let	obj
4	repeat	repeat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 let	xcomp
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 repeat	ccomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 had	obj
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 you	advmod
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 you	cop
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 you	case
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 had	obl
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 escaped	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 escaped	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 escaped	advmod
15	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 escaped	aux
16	escaped	escape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 had	parataxis
17	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 escaped	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 do	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 do	cc
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 do	mark
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 do	nsubj
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 do	aux
23	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 let	conj
24	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	23 do	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 help	mark
26	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 do	advcl
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 help	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 soften	punct
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	30 soften	cc
30	soften	soften	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 let	conj
31	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 fate	nmod:poss
32	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 fate	amod
33	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 soften	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 have	punct
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 have	nsubj
36	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 soften	parataxis
37	only	only	ADV	_	39 tell	advmod
38	to	to	PART	_	39 tell	mark
39	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 have	xcomp
40	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 tell	iobj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 let	punct
42	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	me			tree rules
2	repeat	infinitive	me not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	have	past	me not said here	cap			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	not is	participle				for you	tree rules
5	not escape	could · perfect	I	death			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme death=Initial_Location
6	do a condition, not said to happen	can	I	anything			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality
7	help	to-infinitive	I not said here		you		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary
8	soften	infinitive	you not said here	your hard fate			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent fate=Patient
9	have	present	you				tree rules
10	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	you not said here		me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
11	fate		your				nom fate «event transitive»: poss=agent

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: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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