English Fairy Tales, Jack Hannaford, sentence 6

If the man had not been a fool he would never have given the money to his wife to keep.

Who acts: man · What happens: have, not be, not give, keep · To what, where: fool, man

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack Hannaford. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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	_	4 had	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 given	advcl
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 fool	advmod
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 fool	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 fool	det
8	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 given	nsubj:pass
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 given	aux
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 given	advmod
12	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 given	aux
13	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 money	det
15	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 given	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 wife	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 wife	nmod:poss
18	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 given	obl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 keep	mark
20	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 wife	acl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 given	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have a condition, not said to happen	past	the man			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	not is a	participle		a fool		tree rules
3	not give	would · perfect · passive		man	to man's wife	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient money=Theme
4	keep	to-infinitive				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: 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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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