The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 53
If you had but held out for the space of one year I should have been free.
Who acts: I · What happens: hold out, be
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 had | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 held | aux |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 held | cc |
| 5 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 held | compound:prt |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 space | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 space | det |
| 9 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 held | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 year | case |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 year | nummod |
| 12 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 space | nmod |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 free | nsubj |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 free | aux |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 free | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 free | cop |
| 17 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 held | parataxis |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold out | past · perfect | for the space of one year | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | should · perfect | I | free property | 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 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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