The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 120
It would have been better for us this day if you had.
Who acts: rank, you · What happens: be, have
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rank, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 better | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 better | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 better | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 better | cop |
| 5 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 us | case |
| 7 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 better | obl |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 day | det |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 better | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 had | mark |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 had | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 better | advcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 better | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | would · perfect | rank | day | for us; good property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have a condition, not said to happen | past | you | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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