The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 160

And so it would have been, had not Stan heard all about it.

Who acts: Stan · What happens: be, hear

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Stan), 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	_	8 had	cc
2	so	so	ADV	_	6 been	advmod
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 been	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 been	aux
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 been	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 had	cop
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 been	punct
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 Stan	advmod
10	Stan	Stan	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 heard	nsubj
11	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 had	ccomp
12	all	all	ADV	_	14 it	advmod
13	about	about	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 heard	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	participle						have property	tree rules
2	hear	past	Stan					about club	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about it=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 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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