The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 58

And the man would have been wiser if he had let the ermine and the mouse alone, for when he turned round again he found he was alone.

Who acts: man · What happens: be, let, turn round, find · To what, where: man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, 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 (man), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 wiser	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wiser	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 wiser	aux
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 wiser	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 wiser	cop
7	wiser	wise	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 let	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 let	nsubj:pass
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 let	aux
11	let	let	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 wiser	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ermine	det
13	ermine	ermine	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 let	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 mouse	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 mouse	det
16	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ermine	conj
17	alone	alone	ADV	_	16 mouse	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 turned	punct
19	for	for	SCONJ	_	22 turned	mark
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 turned	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 turned	nsubj
22	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 let	conj
23	round	round	ADV	_	22 turned	advmod
24	again	again	ADV	_	22 turned	advmod
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 found	nsubj
26	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 turned	conj
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 alone	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 alone	cop
29	alone	alone	ADV	_	26 found	ccomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 wiser	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	would · perfect	the man			wise property	tree rules
2	let a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		man			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient ermine=Theme
3	turn round	past	man		again	round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	find	past	man				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	man			alone 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: «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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