Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Robber-girl, sentence 30
Both rascals would fly away directly, if they were not closely locked up.
Who acts: rascals · What happens: fly away, not lock up · To what, where: rascals
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Robber-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rascals), 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 | Both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 rascals | det |
| 2 | rascals | rascal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fly | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 fly | aux |
| 4 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 fly | advmod |
| 6 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 4 fly | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 locked | punct |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 locked | mark |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 locked | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 locked | aux:pass |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 locked | advmod |
| 12 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 13 locked | advmod |
| 13 | locked | lock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 fly | conj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 locked | compound:prt |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fly | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly away | would | both rascals | away, directly property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not lock up a condition, not said to happen | past · passive | rascals = rascal | closely property | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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