The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 3, sentence 55

If you had delayed one day more, you would have found him dead.”

Who acts: you · What happens: delay, find · To what, where: more, Beast

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 3. 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 delayed	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 delayed	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 delayed	aux
4	delayed	delay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 found	advcl
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 day	nummod
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 delayed	obl:unmarked
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 delayed	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 delayed	punct
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 found	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 found	aux
11	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 found	aux
12	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 found	obj
14	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 found	xcomp
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 found	punct
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	delay a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	you	more			day		vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent more=Source
2	find	would · perfect	you	Beast				dead property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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