The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 104

If he had not been in such a hurry to get back to his mother, he would have gone too, for he loved shows with giants and dwarfs and the like.

Who acts: head · What happens: have, not be, get back, go, love · To what, where: hurry, shows

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head), 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	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 gone	advcl
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 hurry	advmod
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 hurry	cop
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 hurry	case
7	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	9 hurry	det:predet
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 hurry	det
9	hurry	hurry	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 get	mark
11	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 hurry	acl
12	back	back	ADV	_	11 get	advmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 mother	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 mother	nmod:poss
15	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 back	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 gone	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 gone	aux
19	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 gone	aux
20	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
21	too	too	ADV	_	20 gone	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 loved	punct
23	for	for	SCONJ	_	25 loved	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 loved	nsubj
25	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 gone	conj
26	shows	show	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 loved	obj
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 giants	case
28	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 loved	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 dwarfs	cc
30	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 giants	conj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 like	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 like	det
33	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 dwarfs	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have a condition, not said to happen	past	head				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	not is	participle			such hurry		tree rules
3	get back	to-infinitive	head not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	go	would · perfect	head				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	love	past	head	shows		with giants and dwarfs	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer show=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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