The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 91

But better had it been if you had first asked your father's leave before you made it.

Who acts: you · What happens: have, ask, make · To what, where: vow, you

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	_	3 had	cc
2	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 had	advmod
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	obj
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 asked	aux:pass
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 asked	mark
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 asked	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 asked	aux
9	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 asked	advmod
10	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 had	conj
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 father	nmod:poss
12	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 leave	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 father	case
14	leave	leave	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 asked	obj
15	before	before	SCONJ	_	17 made	mark
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 made	nsubj
17	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 asked	ccomp
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 made	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past		vow	well property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	ask speech: ask a condition, not said to happen	participle · perfect · passive		you	first property	tree rules
3	make	past	you	vow		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product

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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