English Fairy Tales, XV. Master and Pupil, sentence 4

Under the circumstances, it would be perhaps as well if the reader did not read the lines out when alone.

Who acts: monograph, reader · What happens: be, not read out · To what, where: lines, circumstances

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XV. Master and Pupil. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (monograph, reader), 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	Under	under	ADP	_	3 circumstances	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 circumstances	det
3	circumstances	circumstance	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 read	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 circumstances	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 perhaps	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 perhaps	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 perhaps	cop
8	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	16 read	advmod
9	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	8 perhaps	advmod
10	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 as	fixed
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 read	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 reader	det
13	reader	reader	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 read	nsubj
14	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 read	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 read	advmod
16	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 lines	det
18	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 read	obj
19	out	out	ADP	_	16 read	compound:prt
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 alone	advmod
21	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 read	advcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 read	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	monograph					perhaps property	tree rules
2	not read out	past · do-support	the reader	the lines		the circumstances			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=Topic

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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