The Green Fairy Book, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, sentence 8

But there was no one in the wide world, and if there had been she could not have had such golden hair.

Who acts: one · What happens: be, not have · To what, where: _

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one), 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	_	3 was	cc
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 was	expl
3	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 one	det
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 was	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 world	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 world	det
8	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 world	amod
9	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 one	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 had	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 had	cc
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 had	mark
13	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	20 had	expl
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 had	aux
15	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 had	aux:pass
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 had	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 had	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 had	advmod
19	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 had	aux
20	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 was	parataxis
21	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 hair	amod
22	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 hair	amod
23	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 had	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	no one in the wide world			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not have a condition, not said to happen	could · past · perfect · passive		_		there			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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