The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 33
If he did it so much the better for you, and if he didn’t, matters would just be as they are now and he could still be hanged.’
Who acts: emperor · What happens: do, not do, matter, hange · To what, where: task, princes
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Mermaid. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (emperor), 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 did | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 better | advcl |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 did | obj |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 much | advmod |
| 6 | much | much | ADV | _ | 8 better | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 better | det |
| 8 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 you | case |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 better | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 matters | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 matters | cc |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 did | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 did | nsubj |
| 15 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 matters | advcl |
| 16 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 did | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 did | punct |
| 18 | matters | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 hanged | csubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 hanged | aux |
| 20 | just | just | ADV | _ | 31 hanged | advmod |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 31 hanged | aux:pass |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 31 hanged | mark |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 hanged | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 hanged | aux:pass |
| 25 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 31 hanged | advmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 hanged | cc |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 hanged | nsubj |
| 28 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 hanged | aux |
| 29 | still | still | ADV | _ | 31 hanged | advmod |
| 30 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 31 hanged | aux:pass |
| 31 | hanged | hange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 better | advcl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 better | punct |
| 33 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 better | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | emperor | task | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | not do a condition, not said to happen | past | emperor | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | matter | present | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | hange | could · passive | princes = prince | now; still | 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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