The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 4, sentence 13

Often he stood for hours motionless as a statue, and if the desire to succeed could have helped him he would soon have possessed the Rosy Mole.

Who acts: Prince, desire · What happens: stand, succeed, help, possess · To what, where: Prince

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, desire), 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	Often	often	ADV	_	3 stood	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stood	nsubj
3	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 hours	case
5	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stood	obl
6	motionless	motionless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stood	xcomp
7	as	as	ADP	_	9 statue	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 statue	det
9	statue	statue	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stood	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 helped	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 helped	cc
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 helped	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 desire	det
14	desire	desire	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 helped	nsubj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 succeed	mark
16	succeed	succeed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 desire	acl
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 helped	aux
18	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 helped	aux
19	helped	help	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 stood	conj
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 helped	obj
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 possessed	nsubj:pass
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 possessed	aux
23	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 possessed	advmod
24	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 possessed	aux
25	possessed	possess	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 helped	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Mole	det
27	Rosy	rosy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 Mole	amod
28	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 possessed	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	Prince			hour	as a statue; motionless, often property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	succeed	to-infinitive	the desire not said here					vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	help a condition, not said to happen	could · perfect	the desire		Prince			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary
4	possess	would · perfect · passive		Prince			soon 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: «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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