The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 112
‘If I weren’t to help you, you’d never guess.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: not help, not guess · To what, where: you
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 help | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 help | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 help | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 help | aux |
| 5 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 help | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 help | mark |
| 7 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 help | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 guess | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 guess | nsubj |
| 11 | ’d | 'd | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 guess | aux |
| 12 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 13 guess | advmod |
| 13 | guess | guess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 help | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not help | past | I | you | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | not guess | present | you | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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