The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 48

If they fell into the hands of men, everyone would be rich, and none need work or suffer hunger.’

Who acts: Hans, everyone, none · What happens: fall, be, need, suffer · To what, where: hands, work, hunger

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Underground Workers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hans, everyone, none), 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 fell	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fell	nsubj
3	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 hands	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hands	det
6	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fell	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 men	case
8	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hands	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 rich	punct
10	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	13 rich	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 rich	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 rich	cop
13	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 men	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 need	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 need	cc
16	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	17 need	nsubj
17	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fell	parataxis
18	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 need	obj
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 suffer	cc
20	suffer	suffer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 need	conj
21	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 suffer	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fell	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fall	past	Hans = han		into the hands of men result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into hand=Result
2	is	would	everyone		rich property	tree rules
3	need	present	none	work		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot work=Theme
4	suffer	infinitive	none not said here	hunger		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hunger=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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