The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 142

Yet had she not been ill and slow of foot, thou couldst not have overtaken her.

Who acts: wife · What happens: have, not be, be, not overtake · To what, where: thou

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife), 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	Yet	yet	CCONJ	_	2 had	cc
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 ill	nsubj
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 ill	advmod
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 ill	cop
6	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 had	ccomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 slow	cc
8	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ill	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 foot	case
10	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 slow	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 overtaken	punct
12	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	16 overtaken	nsubj:pass
13	couldst	could	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	16 overtaken	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 overtaken	advmod
15	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 overtaken	aux
16	overtaken	overtake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 ill	conj
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 overtaken	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	not is	participle	wife		ill property	tree rules
3	be		wife not said here		of foot	tree rules
4	not overtake	could · perfect · passive		thou		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 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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