The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 56

If you had all the men in the world to help you, you could not clear off this one little hay-rick in a week.

Who acts: you, this · What happens: have, help, not clear off, rick · To what, where: men, world, you

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, this), 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	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 clear	advcl
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 men	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 men	det
6	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 world	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 world	det
9	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 men	nmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 help	mark
11	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	advcl
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 help	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 clear	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 clear	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 clear	advmod
17	clear	clear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
18	off	off	ADP	_	17 clear	compound:prt
19	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 rick	nsubj
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 rick	nummod
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 rick	amod
22	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 rick	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 hay	punct
24	rick	rick	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 clear	parataxis
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 week	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 week	det
27	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 rick	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 clear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	have a condition, not said to happen	past	you	all men		the world		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient
2	help	to-infinitive	you not said here		you			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary
3	not clear off	could	you					vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source
4	rick		this				week	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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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