Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 45

Had you acted fairly, you would have been, at this instant, a black cinder, or a handful of white ashes.

Who acts: you · What happens: act, be · To what, where: instant

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	Had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 acted	aux
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 acted	nsubj
3	acted	act	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	fairly	fairly	ADV	_	3 acted	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 acted	punct
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 instant	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 instant	aux
8	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 instant	aux
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 instant	cop
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 instant	punct
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 instant	case
12	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 instant	det
13	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 acted	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 cinder	punct
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 cinder	det
16	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 cinder	amod
17	cinder	cinder	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 instant	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 handful	punct
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 handful	cc
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 handful	det
21	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 instant	conj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 ashes	case
23	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 ashes	amod
24	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 handful	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 acted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	act	past · perfect	you					fairly property	vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	would · perfect	you			this instant and a black cinder or a handful of white ashes			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: «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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