Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, sentence 75

But for her, you would be now dead."

Who acts: you · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	But	but	CCONJ	_	9 dead	cc
2	for	for	ADP	_	3 her	case
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 dead	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 her	punct
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 dead	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 dead	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 dead	cop
8	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 dead	advmod
9	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 dead	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 dead	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	you				now	for wife; dead property	tree rules

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: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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