More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 46
Why the Mayor himself could have done that if only he had thought of it.
Who acts: council · What happens: do, think · To what, where: Mayor
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (council), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 done | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Mayor | det |
| 3 | Mayor | Mayor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 done | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 Mayor | nmod |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 done | aux |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 done | aux |
| 7 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 thought | mark |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 thought | mark |
| 10 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 thought | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 thought | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 thought | aux |
| 13 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 done | advcl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 thought | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | could · perfect · passive | the Mayor council | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | council | of boat | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: 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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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