The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 68

But then you would never have fasted, and never have planned how to get what you wanted, and never have known the good spirits, and would have been fat and idle to the end of your days.

Who acts: you · What happens: not fast, not plan, get, want, not know, be · To what, where: good spirits

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 (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	_	7 fasted	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 fasted	advmod
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 fasted	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 fasted	aux
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 fasted	advmod
6	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 fasted	aux
7	fasted	fast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 planned	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 planned	cc
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 planned	advmod
11	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 planned	aux
12	planned	plan	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 fasted	conj
13	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 get	advmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 get	mark
15	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 planned	advcl
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 get	obj
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 wanted	nsubj
18	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 what	acl:relcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 known	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 known	cc
21	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	23 known	advmod
22	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 known	aux
23	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 fasted	parataxis
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 spirits	det
25	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 spirits	amod
26	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 known	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 fat	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 fat	cc
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 fat	aux
30	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 fat	aux
31	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 fat	cop
32	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fasted	conj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 idle	cc
34	idle	idle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 fat	conj
35	to	to	ADP	_	37 end	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 end	det
37	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 idle	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 days	case
39	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 days	nmod:poss
40	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 end	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 fasted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not fast	would · perfect	you		then		tree rules
2	not plan	present · perfect	you not said here				vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	get	to-infinitive	you not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
4	want	past	you				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	not know	present · perfect		the good spirits			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer spirit=Stimulus
6	is	would · perfect	you not said here			fat property	tree rules
7	be		you not said here		to the end of your days		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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