English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 25

Little Dick would have lived very happy in this good family if it had not been for the ill-natured cook.

Who acts: Little Dick, merchant · What happens: live, not be · To what, where: good family

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Whittington and His Cat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Little Dick, merchant), 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	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Dick	amod
2	Dick	Dick	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 lived	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 lived	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 lived	aux
5	lived	live	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 happy	advmod
7	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lived	xcomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 family	case
9	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 family	det
10	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 family	amod
11	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lived	obl
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 cook	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 cook	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 cook	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 cook	advmod
16	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 cook	cop
17	for	for	ADP	_	22 cook	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 cook	det
19	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 natured	amod
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 ill	punct
21	natured	natured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 cook	amod
22	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lived	advcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	would · perfect	Little Dick			this good family		happy property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in family=Location
2	not is a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	merchant					for the natured cook	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: «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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