The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 37

Everything now would have been lost, if by good luck the hunter had not been standing on the castle tower and had seen everything with his sharp eyes.

Who acts: good luck, hunter · What happens: lose, not stand, see · To what, where: Everything, good luck, castle tower

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good luck, hunter), 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	Everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 lost	nsubj:pass
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Everything	advmod
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 lost	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 lost	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 lost	aux:pass
6	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 luck	punct
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 luck	mark
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 luck	case
10	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 luck	amod
11	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lost	obl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hunter	det
13	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 standing	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 standing	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 standing	advmod
16	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 standing	aux
17	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 luck	acl:relcl
18	on	on	ADP	_	21 tower	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 tower	det
20	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tower	compound
21	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 standing	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 seen	cc
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 seen	aux
24	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 standing	conj
25	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	24 seen	obj
26	with	with	ADP	_	29 eyes	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 eyes	nmod:poss
28	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 eyes	amod
29	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 everything	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lost	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lose	would · perfect · passive	good luck	Everything			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Eventuality
2	not stand	past · perfect · progressive	the hunter	good luck not said here	the castle tower		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent luck=Theme on tower=Destination
3	see	past · perfect	the hunter not said here	everything		with wind's sharp eyes	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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