The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 15
If they were not dead, they had flown elsewhere.
Who acts: hunters · What happens: not be, fly · To what, where: hunters
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hunters), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 dead | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 dead | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dead | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 dead | advmod |
| 5 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 flown | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 dead | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 flown | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 flown | aux |
| 9 | flown | fly | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | elsewhere | elsewhere | ADV | _ | 9 flown | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 flown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a condition, not said to happen | past | hunters = hunter | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fly | past · perfect · passive | hunters = hunter | elsewhere property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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