The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 76
And if the Lion Fairy were to know of my presence in her kingdom she would hasten to kill me.'
Who acts: Lion Fairy, Fairy · What happens: know, hasten, kill · To what, where: kingdom, me
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lion Fairy, Fairy), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 hasten | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 know | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Fairy | det |
| 4 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Fairy | compound |
| 5 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 know | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 know | aux |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 know | mark |
| 8 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 hasten | advcl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 presence | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 presence | nmod:poss |
| 11 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 know | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 kingdom | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 14 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hasten | obl |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 hasten | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 hasten | aux |
| 17 | hasten | hasten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 kill | mark |
| 19 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 hasten | xcomp |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 kill | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 hasten | punct |
| 22 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 hasten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know a condition, not said to happen | past | the Lion Fairy | of my presence | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of presence=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | hasten | would | Fairy | Fairy's kingdom | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | kill | to-infinitive | Fairy not said here | me | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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