English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, sentence 16

But she would not at first, for he was the last of her children she now had, and if he was lost, all would be lost.

Who acts: Merlin, mother · What happens: be, have, lose · To what, where: children, Merlin, all

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Childe Rowland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Merlin, mother), 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 would	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 would	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 would	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 first	case
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 not	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 last	punct
8	for	for	ADP	_	12 last	case
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 last	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 last	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 last	det
12	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 would	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 children	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 children	nmod:poss
15	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 last	nmod
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 had	nsubj
17	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 had	advmod
18	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 children	acl:relcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 lost	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 lost	cc
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 lost	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 lost	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 lost	aux:pass
24	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 lost	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 lost	punct
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 lost	nsubj:pass
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 lost	aux
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 lost	aux:pass
29	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 would	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 would	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Merlin			for the last; of mother's children	tree rules
2	have	past	mother	mother's children not said here	now		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
3	lose a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		Merlin			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
4	lose	would · passive		all			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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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