The Violet Fairy Book, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water., sentence 2

They might have been happy if only the old woman had had the sense to hold her tongue at proper times.

Who acts: man, old woman · What happens: be, have, hold · To what, where: sense, tongue

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, old woman), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 happy	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 happy	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 happy	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 happy	cop
5	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 had	mark
7	only	only	ADV	_	10 woman	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 woman	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 woman	amod
10	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 had	aux
12	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 happy	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sense	det
14	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 hold	mark
16	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 sense	acl
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 tongue	nmod:poss
18	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hold	obj
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 times	case
20	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 times	amod
21	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 hold	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 happy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	might · perfect	man			happy property	tree rules
2	have a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	the old woman	the sense			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sense=Patient
3	hold	to-infinitive	the old woman not said here	woman's tongue	time		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme

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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