The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 146

It would have been better if you had left me with my stepmother, than first to have brought me to heaven and then send me back to a worse place.’

Who acts: work, you · What happens: be, leave, bring, send back · To what, where: me, heaven, worse place

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (work, 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	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 left	mark
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 left	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 left	aux
9	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 better	advcl
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 left	iobj
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 stepmother	case
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 stepmother	nmod:poss
13	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 left	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 brought	punct
15	than	than	ADP	_	16 first	case
16	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	19 brought	obl
17	to	to	PART	_	19 brought	mark
18	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 brought	aux
19	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 better	parataxis
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 brought	obj
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 heaven	case
22	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 brought	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 send	cc
24	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 send	advmod
25	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 brought	conj
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 send	iobj
27	back	back	ADV	_	25 send	advmod
28	to	to	ADP	_	31 place	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 place	det
30	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	31 place	amod
31	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 send	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 better	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 better	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would · perfect	work					good property	tree rules
2	leave a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	you		me			with my stepmother	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Recipient with stepmother=Theme
3	bring	to-infinitive · perfect		me		heaven			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to heaven=Destination
4	send back	infinitive			me	a worse place	then		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to place=Destination

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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