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The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 66

If anyone was to get hold of it, and find that they could cross rivers and seas without any trouble, they would never discover how to cross them for themselves.

Who acts: anyone, people · What happens: be, find, cross, not discover, hold · To what, where: rivers, people, hold · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (anyone, people), 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

marknsubjcopmarkadvclobjcasenmodpunctccconjmarknsubjauxccompobjccconjcasedetoblpunctnsubjauxadvmodadvmodmarkparataxisobjcaseoblpunctrootIfSCONJanyonePRONwasAUXtoPARTgetVERBholdNOUNofADPitPRON,PUNCTandCCONJfindVERBthatSCONJtheyPRONcouldAUXcrossVERBriversNOUNandCCONJseasNOUNwithoutADPanyDETtroubleNOUN,PUNCTtheyPRONwouldAUXneverADVdiscoverVERBhowADVtoPARTcrossVERBthemPRONforADPthemselvesPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1IfifSCONJ_5 getmark
2anyoneanyonePRONNumber=Sing PronType=Ind5 getnsubj
3wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 getcop
4totoPART_5 getmark
5getgetVERBVerbForm=Inf26 discoveradvcl
6holdholdNOUNNumber=Sing5 getobj
7ofofADP_8 itcase
8ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs6 holdnmod
9,,PUNCT_11 findpunct
10andandCCONJ_11 findcc
11findfindVERBVerbForm=Inf5 getconj
12thatthatSCONJ_15 crossmark
13theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs15 crossnsubj
14couldcouldAUXVerbForm=Fin15 crossaux
15crosscrossVERBVerbForm=Inf11 findccomp
16riversriverNOUNNumber=Plur15 crossobj
17andandCCONJ_18 seascc
18seasseaNOUNNumber=Plur16 riversconj
19withoutwithoutADP_21 troublecase
20anyanyDETPronType=Ind21 troubledet
21troubletroubleNOUNNumber=Sing15 crossobl
22,,PUNCT_5 getpunct
23theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs26 discovernsubj
24wouldwouldAUXVerbForm=Fin26 discoveraux
25neverneverADVPronType=Neg26 discoveradvmod
26discoverdiscoverVERBVerbForm=Infrootroot
27howhowADVPronType=Int29 crossadvmod
28totoPART_29 crossmark
29crosscrossVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Fin26 discoverparataxis
30themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs29 crossobj
31forforADP_32 themselvescase
32themselvesthemselvesPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes29 crossobl
33..PUNCT_26 discoverpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1is a condition, not said to happenpastanyoneget propertytree rules
2findinfinitiveanyone not said herevn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3crosscouldpeoplerivers and seaswithout any troublevn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Patient
4not discoverwouldpeoplevn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent
5crossto-infinitivepeoplefor peoplevn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
6holdholdnom hold «act transitive»: of=patient

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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