The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 57

‘But he would not do that,’ she continued softly, ‘and after all, if I had stayed on in your house, I should never have met the snake, nor have got my hand back again.

Who acts: brother, news, I · What happens: not do, continue, stay on, not meet, get · To what, where: that, snake, hand

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, news, I), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 do	cc
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 do	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 do	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 do	advmod
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 do	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 continued	punct
9	’	'	CCONJ	_	11 continued	cc
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 continued	nsubj
11	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 do	parataxis
12	softly	softly	ADV	_	11 continued	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 continued	punct
14	‘	‘	PUNCT	_	32 met	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 met	cc
16	after	after	ADP	_	17 all	case
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 met	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 all	punct
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 stayed	mark
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 stayed	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 stayed	aux
22	stayed	stay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 all	advcl
23	on	on	ADP	_	22 stayed	compound:prt
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 house	case
25	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 house	nmod:poss
26	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 all	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 all	punct
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 met	nsubj
29	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 met	aux
30	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	32 met	advmod
31	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 met	aux
32	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 do	advcl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 snake	det
34	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 met	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 got	punct
36	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	38 got	cc
37	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 got	aux
38	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 met	conj
39	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 hand	nmod:poss
40	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 got	obj
41	back	back	ADV	_	42 again	advmod
42	again	again	ADV	_	38 got	advmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not do	would	brother	that			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality
2	continue	past	news			softly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	stay on a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	I				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not meet	should · perfect	I	the snake	after all		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=Co-Agent
5	get	present · perfect	I not said here	my hand	again		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hand=Stimulus

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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