The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 31

And if any presented themselves that were not skilled workmen he would have none of them.

Who acts: skilled workmen · What happens: present, not be, have · To what, where: any, skilled workmen, that

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (skilled workmen), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 presented	cc
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	4 presented	mark
3	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	4 presented	nsubj:pass
4	presented	present	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 presented	obj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 have	obj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 workmen	cop
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 workmen	advmod
9	skilled	skilled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 workmen	amod
10	workmen	workman	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 have	nsubj
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 have	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 have	aux
13	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 presented	parataxis
14	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	13 have	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 none	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 presented	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	present	participle · passive		any	tree rules
2	not is a	past		skilled workmen	tree rules
3	have	would	skilled workmen	that	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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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