The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 13

‘If I could have let you go, and kept your eleven brothers at home, it would have been better for me in my old age.’

Who acts: I, home · What happens: let, go, keep, be · To what, where: I, eleven brothers, home, old age

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, home), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 let	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 let	mark
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 let	nsubj:pass
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 let	aux
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 let	aux
6	let	let	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 let	obj
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 let	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 kept	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 kept	cc
11	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 let	conj
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 brothers	nmod:poss
13	eleven	eleven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 brothers	nummod
14	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 kept	obj
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 home	case
16	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 kept	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 better	punct
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 better	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 better	aux
20	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 better	aux
21	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 better	cop
22	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 kept	parataxis
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 me	case
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 better	obl
25	in	in	ADP	_	28 age	case
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 age	nmod:poss
27	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 age	amod
28	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 better	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 let	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	could · perfect · passive		I				tree rules
2	go	infinitive	I not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	keep	past		your eleven brothers	home			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent brother=Theme at home=Location
4	is	would · perfect	home			in my old age	for me; good 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 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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