The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 21
Supposing that the shrinking of his nose had only been an accident before!
Who acts: shrinking · What happens: suppose, have, be, shrink · To what, where: accident, nose
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shrinking), 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 | Supposing | suppose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 had | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 shrinking | det |
| 4 | shrinking | shrinking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 nose | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 nose | nmod:poss |
| 7 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shrinking | nmod |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Supposing | advcl |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 12 accident | advmod |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 accident | cop |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 accident | det |
| 12 | accident | accident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obj |
| 13 | before | before | ADV | _ | 12 accident | advmod |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Supposing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suppose | gerund | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | have | past | the shrinking of shrinking's nose | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | participle | a accident | before property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | shrink | shrinking's nose | nom shrinking «event transitive»: of=patient |
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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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