The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 70

Indeed, so clever were they that they might have been hunting still if a terrible thing had not happened.

Who acts: fishes, terrible thing · What happens: be, hunt, not happen · To what, where: fishes

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fishes, terrible thing), 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	Indeed	indeed	ADV	_	4 clever	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 clever	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 clever	advmod
4	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 they	cop
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 clever	nsubj
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 hunting	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 hunting	nsubj
9	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 hunting	aux
10	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 hunting	aux
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 hunting	aux
12	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 they	advcl
13	still	still	ADV	_	20 happened	advmod
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 happened	mark
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 thing	det
16	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 thing	amod
17	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 happened	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 happened	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 happened	advmod
20	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 hunting	advcl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 clever	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	is a	past		fishes = fish		tree rules
2	hunt	might · perfect · progressive	fishes = fish			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not happen a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	a terrible thing		still	vn occur-48.3-1 «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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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