The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 69

If you had not told me I should never have known that there was any wool on the wheel at all.

Who acts: I, wool · What happens: not tell, not know, be · To what, where: you, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, 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 (I, wool), 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	_	5 told	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 told	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 told	advmod
5	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 told	iobj
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 known	nsubj
8	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 known	aux
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 known	advmod
10	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 known	aux
11	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 told	ccomp
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 was	mark
13	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	14 was	expl
14	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 known	ccomp
15	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	16 wool	det
16	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 was	nsubj
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 wheel	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 wheel	det
19	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wool	nmod
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 all	case
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 wheel	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		you	me		tree rules
2	not know	should · perfect	I				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	be	past	any wool on the wheel at all			there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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