The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 180
As if anybody you had sent could not have done just as much!”
Who acts: anybody · What happens: send, not do · To what, where: you
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (anybody), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 done | mark |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 done | mark |
| 3 | anybody | anybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 done | nsubj |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sent | aux |
| 6 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 anybody | acl:relcl |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 done | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 done | advmod |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 done | aux |
| 10 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | just | just | ADV | _ | 13 much | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | ADV | _ | 13 much | advmod |
| 13 | much | much | ADV | _ | 10 done | advmod |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 done | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past · perfect · passive | you | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not do | could · perfect | anybody | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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