The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 2
And even if he could make shoes to perfection they would be no use without the soothing balsam.'
Who acts: lord, shoes · What happens: make, be · To what, where: shoes, use
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lord, shoes), 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 | _ | 6 make | cc |
| 2 | even | even | ADV | _ | 6 make | advmod |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 make | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 make | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 make | aux |
| 6 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 make | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 perfection | case |
| 9 | perfection | perfection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 make | obl |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 use | nsubj |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 use | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 use | cop |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 use | det |
| 14 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 perfection | acl:relcl |
| 15 | without | without | ADP | _ | 18 balsam | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 balsam | det |
| 17 | soothing | soothing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 balsam | amod |
| 18 | balsam | balsam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 make | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 make | punct |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | could | lord | shoes | to perfection; without the soothing balsam | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Product | |||
| 2 | is a | would | shoes = shoe | no use | tree rules |
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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