The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 106

You would never have found out how extraordinary it was if it hadn’t hindered you from doing what you wanted to.

Who acts: You · What happens: not find out, not be, do, want · To what, where: prison

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess. 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 found	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 found	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 found	advmod
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 found	aux
5	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 found	compound:prt
7	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 extraordinary	advmod
8	extraordinary	extraordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 found	xcomp
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 extraordinary	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 hindered	cop
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 hindered	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 hindered	nsubj:pass
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 hindered	aux
14	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 hindered	advmod
15	hindered	hinder	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 extraordinary	conj
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 hindered	obj
17	from	from	SCONJ	_	18 doing	mark
18	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 hindered	advcl
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 doing	obj
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 wanted	nsubj
21	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 what	acl:relcl
22	to	to	PART	_	21 wanted	xcomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not find out	would · perfect	You		extraordinary property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
2	not is a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		prison	hinder property	tree rules
3	do	gerund				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
4	want	past	you			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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