Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 99

It would have been very odd, indeed, if it had not.

Who acts: thing · What happens: be, not have

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thing), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 odd	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 odd	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 odd	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 odd	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 odd	advmod
6	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 indeed	punct
8	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	6 odd	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 had	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 had	nsubj
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 odd	parataxis
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 had	advmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 odd	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would · perfect	thing					indeed, odd property	tree rules
2	not have a condition, not said to happen	past	thing						vn birth-28.2-1 «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: «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (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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